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Santa Monica · Everclear

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove G -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesGS1CAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Santa Monica on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-42 and snare through bars 43-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 11 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Santa Monica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 20, 23, 43, 51, 55 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-44 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Santa Monica?

100 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 Santa Monica hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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 Santa Monica?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 20, 23, 43, 51, 55 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED