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When It Lands · Rainbow Kitten Surprise

When It Lands · Rainbow Kitten Surprise
EXERCISE 24 OF 45
Groove O -- Part O
70 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesCBSEM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When It Lands on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-42 and kick and crashes through bars 43-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 and 43-50 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
When It Lands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-51 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-79 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When It Lands?

120 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 It Lands hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in When It Lands?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED