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Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion · Jay Mackintosh

EXERCISE 8 OF 68
Groove B -- Part B
36 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART S11
PART AC
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
16 groovesMAFAMTAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion on drums

135 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-6, silence through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25 and snare through bars 26-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-97 and 99-104 -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
SD |------------f-----------|
FT |----x---x-------x---x---|
BD |x-------x---------------|
Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 62, 70, 86 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AF, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion?

189 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Doubt Your Commitment To Sparkle Motion?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 62, 70, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED