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Circle With Me · Box Of Spirits

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO 2
18 groovesKNAIBU+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circle With Me on drums

200 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-26, hi-hat through bars 27-71, snare through bars 72-80, toms through bars 81-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-126, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-21, 23-24 and 73-77, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x---x---x---x-|
Circle With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 50, 96, 104 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-35 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-51 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-64 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S7 and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-84 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-117 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circle With Me?

205 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 Circle With Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Circle With Me?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 50, 96, 104 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED