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Snake In The Grass · Annihilator

EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Groove I
47 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGTLQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snake In The Grass on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-15 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---o-------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-x-----x---x-------x---x-|x-----x---x-------x---x-x-----x---x-----x-------|
Snake In The Grass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 50, 53, 54 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 27-44 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-51 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snake In The Grass?

106 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 Snake In The Grass hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Snake In The Grass?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 50, 53, 54 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED