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So Did We · Isis

EXERCISE 28 OF 59
Groove P (a two-bar phrase)
68 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
PART F
PART L
PART L
PART M
PART V
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS11LMVF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Did We on drums

175 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 142 BPM, 7:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-121 and silence through bars 122-175.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31 and 43-57 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x---x---|
SD |------x-------------x---|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
So Did We -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 25, 38, 64, 68, 74 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Did We?

142 BPM, in 6/4, 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 So Did We hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in So Did We?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 25, 38, 64, 68, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED