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EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove AA -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
11 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBAAELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Snow on drums

62 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-23 and ride through bars 24-27, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9 and 19-20 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|x-----x-----------x--x--x--x--x--x--------x-----|
Red Snow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 18, 21, 32 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Snow?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Red Snow hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 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 Red Snow?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 18, 21, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED