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Sexual Healing · Marvin Gay

Sexual Healing · Marvin Gay
EXERCISE 16 OF 27
Join Chorus 4 to Part G (bars 122-124)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART G
PART C
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART C
VERSE 4
CHORUS 6
VERSE 5
4 groovesEDCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sexual Healing on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 9:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-223.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-55, 80-95 and 104-107, and 5 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    44               45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x-------x------x|x------xx-x-x--x|
Sexual Healing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-99 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 96-124 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 122-147 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sexual Healing?

95 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 Sexual Healing hard to play on drums?

59 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 9:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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