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December · Collective Soul

EXERCISE 11 OF 16
Groove G -- Outro
79 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
8 groovesCGS9S3S5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play December on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 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
118
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-22, silence through bars 23-28, toms through bars 29-30, silence through bars 31-36 and toms through bars 37-38, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-17 and 19-20, and 16 more places -- 58.4% 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-------|
December -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 45, 61, 69, 85, 101 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-70 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is December?

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 December hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 December?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 45, 61, 69, 85, 101 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED