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Dan · Sheila On 7

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove G
136 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dan on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-20, hi-hat through bars 21-105, ride through bars 106-110, hi-hat through bars 111-135 and ride through bars 136-140, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 55 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-------|
Dan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 111-138 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dan?

122 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED