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All At Sea · Jamie Cullum

All At Sea · Jamie Cullum
EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Groove M -- Part M
128 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART D
PART M
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesBDJMS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All At Sea on drums

166 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-101, silence through bars 102-108, ride through bars 109-112, hi-hat through bars 113-119 and ride through bars 120-126, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21, and 32 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|
All At Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, D, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-116 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-101 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 115-135 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 132-154 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All At Sea?

174 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 All At Sea hard to play on drums?

42 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in All At Sea?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED