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Sitting Still · R.E.M.

Sitting Still · R.E.M.
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EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove I
110 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sitting Still on drums

123 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 24-30 and 32-54, and 7 more places -- 80.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sitting Still?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sitting Still hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sitting Still?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED