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Sledgehammer · Peter Gabriel

Sledgehammer · Peter Gabriel
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 81 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sledgehammer on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-38 and 40-58, and 12 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--g--x--g--x--g--x--g--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Sledgehammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sledgehammer?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sledgehammer hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sledgehammer?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED