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sedmaya · ya

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Run C1 · Part C (bars 6-11)
75 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART R
PART U
PART AD
BREAK 2
15 groovesJNS13FAD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sedmaya on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
97/100

ride through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-60 and ride through bars 61-89, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-30 and 32-35, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 90, 98, 99, 100, 102 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is sedmaya?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 sedmaya hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 sedmaya?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 90, 98, 99, 100, 102 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED