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S.R.V. · Eric Johnson

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove E -- Part E
38 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play S.R.V. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-43 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-67 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-29 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-60 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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