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Serpentskirt · Cocteau Twins

EXERCISE 9 OF 22
Groove D
61 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Serpentskirt on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-45, ride through bars 46-54, hi-hat through bars 55-57 and ride through bars 58-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 18-20, and 11 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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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-------|
Serpentskirt -- 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 9, 17, 21, 23, 25, 37 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Serpentskirt?

78 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 Serpentskirt hard to play on drums?

43 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Serpentskirt?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 23, 25, 37 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED