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EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
38 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
PART J
PART J
9 groovesDJSPK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closer on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, ride through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 15 and 17, and 8 more places -- 19% 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-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx-x-x-x--|
Closer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Closer?

96 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 Closer hard to play on drums?

59 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Closer?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED