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So Long · Donots

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove H -- Part H
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFGBHS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Long on drums

212 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-62, silence through bars 63-70, hi-hat through bars 71-153 and silence through bars 154-160, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48, and 43 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------|
BD |--------x---|
So Long -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 102, 126 and 152.

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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-100 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 101-153 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So Long?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 So Long hard to play on drums?

37 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Long?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 42, 102, 126 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED