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S And M · Rihanna

EXERCISE 10 OF 11
Join Chorus 3 to Break 2 (bars 96-98)
108 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCS1S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play S And M on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
22/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, silence through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-97, silence through bars 98-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-33, 42-65 and 74-97, and 1 more place -- 88% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
S And M -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 62-77 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is S And M?

128 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 S And M hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED