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Night Sprite · Chick Corea

Night Sprite · Chick Corea
EXERCISE 5 OF 51
Groove AI -- Chorus
29 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART K
PART C
PART Z
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAICCLKZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Sprite on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, toms through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-59, ride through bars 60-65, hi-hat through bars 66-80 and snare through bars 81-85, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |----x-------x---|
Night Sprite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 54, 66, 67 and 69 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Night Sprite?

146 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 Night Sprite hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Night Sprite?

5 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 54, 66, 67 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED