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Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck · Prong

EXERCISE 7 OF 23
Groove C
134 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-78, hi-hat through bars 79-102, snare through bars 103-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-133, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-38, 55-77 and 103-109, and 1 more place -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 143 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-58 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 75-98 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck?

137 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 Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck hard to play on drums?

48 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 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 Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 143 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED