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Simply Irresistible · Robert Palmer

Simply Irresistible · Robert Palmer
EXERCISE 4 OF 20
2-bar fill at bar 2 and 3 more
127 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDS2S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simply Irresistible on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-58, snare through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-101 and snare through bars 102-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 29-35 and 53-58, and 4 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 27, 28, 59, 60 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Simply Irresistible?

143 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 Simply Irresistible hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Simply Irresistible?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 27, 28, 59, 60 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED