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Sometimes · Ash

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sometimes on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-62, ride through bars 63-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-11 and 30-31, and 11 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Sometimes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 46, 54, 71 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-72 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sometimes?

104 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 Sometimes hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Sometimes?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 46, 54, 71 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED