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Sit Down · James

EXERCISE 6 OF 15
Groove C -- Outro
103 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sit Down on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100

snare through bars 1-72, toms through bars 73-88 and snare through bars 89-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 33-63 and 65-72, and 4 more places -- 81.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 64 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sit Down?

126 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 Sit Down hard to play on drums?

36 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sit Down?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 64 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED