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Indigo · Sam Barber

Indigo · Sam Barber
EXERCISE 18 OF 27
Run G2 · Part G (bars 63-67)
78 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGS6JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indigo on drums

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 83 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, ride through bars 27-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-32, ride through bars 33-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-21, and 9 more places -- 43.2% 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+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Indigo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 45, 57, 84, 85 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-57 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-86 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Indigo?

83 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Indigo hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Indigo?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 45, 57, 84, 85 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED