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Snow Globes · Black Country, New Road

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove AC -- Outro
34 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART G
BREAK
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS4ZGAAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snow Globes on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-17 and snare through bars 18-24, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 18-24 and 90-91, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
Snow Globes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G, Z -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 95-112 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snow Globes?

114 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 Snow Globes hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Snow Globes?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED