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Screen Shot (To Be Kind) · Swans

EXERCISE 15 OF 42
Groove J
286 / 377 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGPEKH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Screen Shot (To Be Kind) on drums

377 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 142 BPM, 7:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
7:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-304 and ride through bars 305-377.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 59 and 71, and 51 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |xxxxo-x-x-x-|
SD |------x--g--|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Screen Shot (To Be Kind) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 304.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Screen Shot (To Be Kind)?

142 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Screen Shot (To Be Kind) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 7:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Screen Shot (To Be Kind)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 304.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 377 BARS ANALYSED