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dan · Sheila On 7

EXERCISE 5 OF 35
Groove F -- Part F
82 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play dan on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-14, toms through bars 15-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26 and snare through bars 27-29, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 24-26 and 30-38, and 21 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 76, 84, 100 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-27 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is dan?

120 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 dan hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 dan?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 76, 84, 100 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED