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Separuh Aku · Noah

Separuh Aku · Noah
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove G -- Verse
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
PART A
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJAKR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Separuh Aku on drums

84 bars, 4:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-57 and ride through bars 58-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x--x--|
Separuh Aku -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 30, 36, 40, 57, 63 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-58 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Separuh Aku?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Separuh Aku hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Separuh Aku?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 30, 36, 40, 57, 63 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED