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EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART E
PART G
PART H
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
BREAK 4
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesLEBHI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snap on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, silence through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-60 and silence through bars 61-66, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-57 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Snap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-72 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snap?

146 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 Snap 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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