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Somethin New · Time Capsule

Somethin New · Time Capsule
EXERCISE 31 OF 62
Fill at bar 58, 70, 138 and 2 more (a small one)
107 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART C
PART S10
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesINCDG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somethin New on drums

152 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-89, silence through bars 90-96 and snare through bars 97-152.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-46 and 49-51, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Somethin New -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 32, 38 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-21 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-14 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-81 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Somethin New?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Somethin New hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Somethin New?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 32, 38 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED