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Winner Is · Devotchka

Winner Is · Devotchka
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Outro 2
0 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winner Is on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-40 and snare through bars 41-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56 and 58-77 -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxX-X-----|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Winner Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 17-77 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Winner Is?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Winner Is hard to play on drums?

55 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED