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Solidarity · Stage Bottles

Solidarity · Stage Bottles
EXERCISE 10 OF 14
Groove E
122 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Solidarity on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, snare through bars 37-74, hi-hat through bars 75-116 and snare through bars 117-119, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 37-51 and 69-83, and 6 more places -- 64.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 36, 68, 84, 92, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-131 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Solidarity?

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

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Solidarity?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 36, 68, 84, 92, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED