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Signs · Five man electric band

Signs · Five man electric band
EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove B -- Part B
73 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesJGBMN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Signs on drums

156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-84 and snare through bars 85-88, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 39 and 41-45, and 15 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Signs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-58 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-143 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-140 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-155 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Signs?

170 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 Signs hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Signs?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED