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In Circles · Sunny Day Real Estate

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Circles on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-131, snare through bars 132-149 and silence through bars 150-173.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 18 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    53               54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x---x---x-------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|x-----x-----f---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x---x-x---x-|
In Circles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 51, 52, 68, 107, 108, 134 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-109 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In Circles?

146 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 In Circles hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 In Circles?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 51, 52, 68, 107, 108, 134 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED