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Snuff · Silent Secret Succulent Sauce

Snuff · Silent Secret Succulent Sauce
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
PART N
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesENUXS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snuff on drums

63 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14 and snare through bars 15-16, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40 -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                       35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|x-x-x-------x-x-x-------|
HH |------o-----------o-----|--------o-----------o---|
SD |------------x-----------|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-------x-------------|x-x-x-------x-x-x-------|
Snuff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 16, 17 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- U, X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Snuff?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Snuff hard to play on drums?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Snuff?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 16, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED