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December · Collective Soul

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDS6HG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play December on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-28, toms through bars 29-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 46-68 and 87-116 -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 45, 69 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-46 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 68-81 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 80-87 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is December?

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 December hard to play on drums?

35 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 December?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 45, 69 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED