S.R.V. · Eric Johnson

95 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 11-13 and 27-30, and 5 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
S.R.V. · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 42, 48, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is S.R.V.?

135 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.R.V. hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in S.R.V.?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 42, 48, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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