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CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE · Ecca Vandal

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE on drums

105 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-89 and snare through bars 90-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 18-23, and 7 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--x-----x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x---x-x---x-----|
CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 8, 24, 56, 57, 72 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE?

180 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 CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 8, 24, 56, 57, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED