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Sapphire · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 6 OF 14
Groove E -- Part E
39 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS1AEG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sapphire on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, silence through bars 41-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-23 and 25-28, and 2 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-65 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sapphire?

95 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 Sapphire hard to play on drums?

57 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED