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Sp Lit · Chimaira

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLFAS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sp Lit on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-36, hi-hat through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45-51 and 67-73 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
Sp Lit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 14, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-67 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sp Lit?

93 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 Sp Lit hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sp Lit?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 14, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED