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Song For Emma · Saxon

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 4
10 groovesCGAS1S10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song For Emma on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-84, snare through bars 85-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 23 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Song For Emma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 60, 77, 97 and 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-39 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-83 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Song For Emma?

132 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 Song For Emma hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Song For Emma?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 60, 77, 97 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED