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Sherpa v2 · Angine de Poitrine

EXERCISE 3 OF 80
Groove R -- Part R
65 / 301 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART Q, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART L
PART R
PART Q
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AU
20 groovesTAULDR+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 11
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sherpa v2 on drums

301 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, silence through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-96, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-99, 101-102 and 105-113, and 9 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sherpa v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 79, 80, 217, 218, 219, 241 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- T, L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-49 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-195 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-95 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sherpa v2?

180 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 Sherpa v2 hard to play on drums?

56 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

301 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sherpa v2?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 79, 80, 217, 218, 219, 241 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 301 BARS ANALYSED