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Spacegrass · Clutch

EXERCISE 31 OF 38
Join Break 5 to Part E (bars 128-130)
129 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 5, PART E
COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
PART S6
PART G
CHORUS
PART S10
BREAK 4
BREAK 5
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJGES10S1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spacegrass on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-42, silence through bars 43-55, ride through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and snare through bars 74-89, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 68-70 and 72, and 29 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 33, 56, 57, 81, 83 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-58 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-73 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 93-115 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 128-165 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spacegrass?

117 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 Spacegrass hard to play on drums?

47 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Spacegrass?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 33, 56, 57, 81, 83 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED