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seasons (full tab) · Wave to earth

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play seasons (full tab) on drums

62 bars, 3:58, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, silence through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-11 and 14, and 9 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
seasons (full tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 33, 37, 40 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is seasons (full tab)?

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

Is seasons (full tab) hard to play on drums?

33 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in seasons (full tab)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 33, 37, 40 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED