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Senses Working Overtime · XTC

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART J
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCJDB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Senses Working Overtime on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-62, toms through bars 63-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-118, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-33, 36-40 and 72-75, and 9 more places -- 21.3% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Senses Working Overtime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 70, 71, 77 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-30 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-87 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Senses Working Overtime?

130 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 Senses Working Overtime hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Senses Working Overtime?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 29, 35, 70, 71, 77 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED