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seasons · Wave To Earth

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Groove C
42 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBKS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play seasons on drums

62 bars, 4:03, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-49, silence through bars 50-54 and ride through bars 55-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14, and 8 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 21, 33, 40, 41 and 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-62 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is seasons?

61 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 seasons?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 21, 33, 40, 41 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED