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Simple Step · Vulf

Simple Step · Vulf
EXERCISE 22 OF 28
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 58-60)
72 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simple Step on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Simple Step -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 84.

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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-84 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Simple Step?

120 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 Simple Step hard to play on drums?

41 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Simple Step?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED