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Sing Along · Ethan Lesmeister

Sing Along · Ethan Lesmeister
EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove K -- Part K
57 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART X, CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesDIXMAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sing Along on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-24, ride through bars 25-27, snare through bars 28-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-24, and 14 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x---x-x-x-x-----x---|
Sing Along -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 31, 45, 51 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sing Along?

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 Sing Along hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sing Along?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 31, 45, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED