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Cissy Strut · Meters

Cissy Strut · Meters
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Part A
0 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cissy Strut on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, silence through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 33-36, and 2 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-Xx-x--X-xx-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-X-|
BD |x--x-g--xx-x-g--|
Cissy Strut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cissy Strut?

90 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 Cissy Strut hard to play on drums?

64 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED