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Saksi ang langit · December Avenue

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART S9
CHORUS 4
PART I
10 groovesBIS9CS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saksi ang langit on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
36/100

toms through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, toms through bars 14-23, hi-hat through bars 24-29, toms through bars 30-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 14-16 and 30-35, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Saksi ang langit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 40 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-74 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-89 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Saksi ang langit?

85 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 Saksi ang langit hard to play on drums?

36 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?

90 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Saksi ang langit?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED