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When Doves Cry · Prince And The Revolution

When Doves Cry · Prince And The Revolution
EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove E -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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OUTRO
3 groovesES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When Doves Cry on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
28/100

hi-hat through bars 3-105 and toms through bars 106-183.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-182 -- 97.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----------------|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------x-x---|----------------|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|x-x---x-x-------|
When Doves Cry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 4.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When Doves Cry?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is When Doves Cry hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When Doves Cry?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 4.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED