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Caress Me Down · Sublime

EXERCISE 27 OF 35
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 30-56)
59 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesFBIKS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caress Me Down on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-45, toms through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-64 and toms through bars 65-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 12 and 14-15, and 11 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-|
Caress Me Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 34, 46 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Caress Me Down?

80 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 Caress Me Down hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Caress Me Down?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 34, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED