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Sail · Awolnation

Sail · Awolnation
EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove D
80 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1AS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sail on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-86 and toms through bars 87-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-23 and 25, and 25 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x--------------------x--|
Sail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 87.

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, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Sail?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sail hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sail?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED