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Snakelike · whatsaheart

EXERCISE 20 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
55 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snakelike on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51 and snare through bars 52-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 18-20 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x--xxx--x-|
Snakelike -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Snakelike?

88 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 Snakelike hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Snakelike?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED