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Circle With Me v2 · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 7 OF 66
Groove D
60 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART U
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART L
PART AE
OUTRO 2
19 groovesCOLUI+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circle With Me v2 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.

53 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
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-26, hi-hat through bars 27-69, toms through bars 70-71, snare through bars 72-79 and toms through bars 80-95, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 3 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--g-g---x-----g-|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Circle With Me v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 26, 42, 46, 50, 70 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- L, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circle With Me v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 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 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 v2?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 26, 42, 46, 50, 70 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED