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Sapphire · Alcest

EXERCISE 24 OF 51
Run K1 · Part K (bars 28-37)
61 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
VERSE
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKPVB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sapphire on drums

90 bars, 5:48, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-53, ride through bars 54-63, hi-hat through bars 64-81 and ride through bars 82-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 20, and 7 more places -- 18.6% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |-gXgXgXgXgXgXgXg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---xx--x---x|
Sapphire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-32 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-38 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-46 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sapphire?

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 Sapphire hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sapphire?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED