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Something More · Sugarland

Something More · Sugarland
EXERCISE 24 OF 53
Groove O
52 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART T
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNHEDT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something More on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, 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
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-28 and 33-39 -- 19% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Something More -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 30, 31, 40 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-69 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Something More?

102 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 Something More 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Something More?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 30, 31, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED