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Sonic and the Secret Rings · No Way Through

Sonic and the Secret Rings · No Way Through
EXERCISE 4 OF 76
Groove V -- Part V
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0 / 76 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, CHORUS 2, PART AC
PART S2
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AT
PART V
PART S12
OUTRO
11 groovesKVACAOS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sonic and the Secret Rings on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-100, silence through bars 101-103 and toms through bars 104-110, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                               14
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------x-----------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------x-----------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------------------x-----|------x-----------------------x-----------------|
Sonic and the Secret Rings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-71 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sonic and the Secret Rings?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sonic and the Secret Rings hard to play on drums?

68 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?

133 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sonic and the Secret Rings?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED