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EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Groove M -- Part M
48 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBAGAHG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SGD on drums

111 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-45 and ride through bars 46-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 42-44, and 2 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SGD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SGD?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is SGD hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 SGD?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED