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Zaferlerim · Demir Demirkan

Zaferlerim · Demir Demirkan
EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove A
74 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART F
PART C
PART Q
PART Q
8 groovesBQFCN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zaferlerim on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

43 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
121
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-90 and snare through bars 91-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 13 and 17, and 6 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Zaferlerim -- 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 36 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, Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-50 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-75 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-94 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zaferlerim?

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 Zaferlerim hard to play on drums?

43 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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