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Second And Sebring · Of Mice And Men

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove X -- Part X (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART K
PART X
PART AE
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AT
OUTRO
12 groovesAKBXATAY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Second And Sebring on drums

133 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |xxxx--xxxx--x--x|--xxxx--xxxx----|
Second And Sebring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 31 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- X -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-43 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Second And Sebring?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Second And Sebring hard to play on drums?

53 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Second And Sebring?

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 31 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED