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Sentimental · IV Of Spades

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove T -- Part T
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CHORUS
PART O
PART T
PART V
PART I
PART O
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEVTOI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sentimental on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 3-69, snare through bars 70-71, silence through bars 72-74, hi-hat through bars 75-90 and toms through bars 91-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 55-57 and 79, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-x---x---------x-|
Sentimental -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- T, V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 2-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sentimental?

90 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 Sentimental hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sentimental?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED