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Kiss Me · Sixpence None The Richer

Kiss Me · Sixpence None The Richer
EXERCISE 11 OF 24
Groove G
64 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBLS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiss Me on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, silence through bars 47-50, hi-hat through bars 51-54, ride through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 26-28, and 8 more places -- 35.5% 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+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Kiss Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 54, 58 and 75.

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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 41-58 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiss Me?

100 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 Kiss Me hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kiss Me?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 37, 54, 58 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED