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Spicks And Specks · Bee Gees

EXERCISE 7 OF 11
Groove D -- Outro 2
59 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spicks And Specks on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-51, silence through bars 52-58, snare through bars 59-77 and ride through bars 78-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-50 and 62-77 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Spicks And Specks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spicks And Specks?

123 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 Spicks And Specks hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Spicks And Specks?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED