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from the sky · Steve Gabry

from the sky · Steve Gabry
EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove C -- Part C
41 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play from the sky on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-40, snare through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 12, and 18 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
from the sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-19 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-64 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is from the sky?

110 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 from the sky hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED