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Seeds · E-L-R

Seeds · E-L-R
EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Groove G -- Outro
157 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seeds on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, snare through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-41 and snare through bars 42-44, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 16 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Seeds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 155, 156, 180 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 42-64 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seeds?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Seeds hard to play on drums?

38 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Seeds?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 155, 156, 180 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED