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so real (ai) · Wave To Earth

EXERCISE 17 OF 31
Run S51 · Part S5 (bars 45-51)
46 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesADMYJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play so real (ai) on drums

81 bars, 4:30, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-45, silence through bars 46-51, ride through bars 52-54, snare through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 18 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
so real (ai) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 50, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S5 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is so real (ai)?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is so real (ai) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 real (ai)?

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 50, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED