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115 · Kevin Sherwood & Elena Siegman

115 · Kevin Sherwood & Elena Siegman
EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove R -- Chorus
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PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesRDFKS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 115 on drums

184 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49 and snare through bars 50-67, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55 and 57-58, and 25 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
115 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- R, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-50 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-45 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 115?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 115 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 115?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED