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Snow-Sleep · Kardashev

Snow-Sleep · Kardashev
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS6BSAES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snow-Sleep on drums

108 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-21, toms through bars 22-36, silence through bars 37-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and ride through bars 63-75, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-19 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............
RD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------g---------------g-----------------------x-------g---------------g---------------g-------|
BD |x---------------------------------------x-------------------------------------------------------|
Snow-Sleep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, AE -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-54 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Snow-Sleep?

110 BPM, in 6/4, 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-Sleep hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Snow-Sleep?

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED