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Sorrow · Mort Shuman

Sorrow · Mort Shuman
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sorrow on drums

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-57 and silence through bars 58-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35, 37-43 and 45-49, and 1 more place -- 92.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sorrow?

116 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Sorrow hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sorrow?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED