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Keep Sweet · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AA
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNS2HANAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Sweet on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47, ride through bars 48-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HH |----------o---o-|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-----x-|x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
Keep Sweet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-48 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keep Sweet?

150 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 Keep Sweet hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Keep Sweet?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED