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Long Snake Moan · PJ Harvey

EXERCISE 15 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Snake Moan on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-84 and snare through bars 85-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 25-27 and 37-38, and 5 more places -- 56.7% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
Long Snake Moan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 75, 76 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-40 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Long Snake Moan?

76 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 Long Snake Moan hard to play on drums?

50 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?

97 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Long Snake Moan?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 75, 76 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED