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EXERCISE 16 OF 71
Groove D -- Part D
24 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART AS
PART L
PART AP
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPAPLDAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seabeast on drums

100 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 59 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100

ride through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-36, toms through bars 37-41 and snare through bars 42-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 17 and 57 -- 3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3.......
CC |x---g---x-------x-------x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------x-----------x---x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-----------x---------------|
Seabeast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 23 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-73 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 3-17 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seabeast?

59 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Seabeast hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Seabeast?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 23 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED