ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creation SES 2026 on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 80
LENGTH: 2:41
DIFFICULTY: 86/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, snare through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and snare through bars 36-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-22 and 28-31 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                               17
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
HH |----o---o-----------o---o---o---|----o---o-----------------------|
SD |--------x---x-x---------x---x---|--------x---x-x---------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---xxx---x-----x---xxx---x---x-|x---xxx---x-----x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|

Creation SES 2026 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through Part S1 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 41-70 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Creation SES 2026?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Creation SES 2026 hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Creation SES 2026?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED