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I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light · Brand New

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBS1HS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
19/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-22, silence through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-56, silence through bars 57-60 and snare through bars 61-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 44-55 and 64-77, and 1 more place -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light -- 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 -- C, B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-87 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light?

99 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 I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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