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November · Silverstein

EXERCISE 16 OF 44
Fill at bar 21 and 53
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0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, BREAK 2
PART D
PART S3
PART K
PART M
BREAK 2
PART K
PART M
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVMKDS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play November on drums

138 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33, ride through bars 34-52, hi-hat through bars 53-65 and ride through bars 66-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-49 and 66-81 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34           35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|x-----x-----|
RD |--x-x---x-x-|--x-x---x-x-|
SD |------x--xx-|------x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x---|x--x-x---x-x|
November -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- M, V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is November?

92 BPM, in 3/4, 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 November hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 November?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED