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Dawn · Marco Sfogli

Dawn · Marco Sfogli
EXERCISE 11 OF 53
Groove E
85 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART N
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDNCA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dawn on drums

177 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 4:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, ride through bars 43-57, snare through bars 58-63, ride through bars 64-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-52 and 64-65, and 24 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |----------x-|
Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 53, 57, 73, 89, 97 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, D, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-27 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 107-159 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 155-167 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dawn?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dawn hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Dawn?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 53, 57, 73, 89, 97 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED