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Katie's Song · Black Sun

Katie's Song · Black Sun
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove E -- Verse
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COUNT-IN
VERSE
BREAK 2
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
7 groovesEGS1S4L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Katie's Song on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, silence through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38 and snare through bars 39-42, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 13 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxo-x|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
HF |--------------x-|
Katie's Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-41 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Katie's Song?

127 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 Katie's Song hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Katie's Song?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 10.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED