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Sea · Dld

Sea · Dld
EXERCISE 14 OF 22
Fill at bar 45, 79, 83 and 95 (a small one)
88 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sea on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 2-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-44, snare through bars 45-50, hi-hat through bars 51-71 and snare through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 8 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 55, 65, 79 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-35 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sea?

105 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 Sea hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sea?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 55, 65, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED