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Sister · Creed

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART G
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNBLGI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sister on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-27, toms through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, ride through bars 44-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-71, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-14 and 116-133 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
T2 |--------------x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sister -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 27, 35, 43 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-31 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-47 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sister?

110 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 Sister hard to play on drums?

58 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Sister?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 27, 35, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED