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Sir Duke · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Fill at bar 8
41 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPDTAJA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sir Duke on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, ride through bars 73-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 65-71 and 97-103 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-xxo-xxo-xxo-xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sir Duke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sir Duke?

107 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 Sir Duke hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Sir Duke?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED