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Downswing · Superheaven

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Downswing on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, snare through bars 59-75 and silence through bars 76-78, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-21, and 21 more places -- 73.5% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Downswing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 34, 50, 58, 86 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-84 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Downswing?

112 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 Downswing hard to play on drums?

40 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Downswing?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 34, 50, 58, 86 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED