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Siberian Sorrow · Grima

EXERCISE 3 OF 84
Groove P -- Part P
70 / 259 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART A
PART S10
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNS10BPA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Siberian Sorrow on drums

259 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
259
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-36, ride through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and snare through bars 69-72, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-63, 180-191 and 193-194, and 5 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Siberian Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 42, 48 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- N, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-98 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Siberian Sorrow?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Siberian Sorrow hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

259 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Siberian Sorrow?

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 42, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 259 BARS ANALYSED