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EXERCISE 5 OF 74
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART E
PART R
PART U
PART Y
PART E
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGERIU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sarenade on drums

204 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28 and snare through bars 29-32, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 36, and 18 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Sarenade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-19 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sarenade?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sarenade hard to play on drums?

60 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sarenade?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED