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September · Earth, Wind & Fire

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Outro 2
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0 / 18 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play September on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:40 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
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-25 and 28-33, and 11 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
September -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 34, 58, 66 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-11 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is September?

123 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 September hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 September?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 34, 58, 66 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED