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Santa Monica · Theory Of A Deadman

EXERCISE 34 OF 35
Run G3 · Outro 2 (bars 56-60)
57 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIGMA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Santa Monica on drums

60 bars, 3:50, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, snare through bars 44-47, silence through bars 48-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11 and 24-29 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x----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

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-24 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-47 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-60 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Santa Monica?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Santa Monica hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Santa Monica?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED