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So Real · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Real on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 39-44 and 47-50, and 2 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 38, 46, 60, 64, 66 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So Real?

79 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Real hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Real?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 38, 46, 60, 64, 66 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED