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Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover · Anup Sastry

EXERCISE 33 OF 67
2-bar fill at bar 60
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART AC
PART AD
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesCIADACM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover on drums

202 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 4:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, toms through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-50 and silence through bars 51-52, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-13 and 20, and 19 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x--x--x-----|
Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 17 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-38 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part S9 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover?

125 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Skyharbor - Dim Drum Cover?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 17 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED