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Spicy · Syncatto

Spicy · Syncatto
EXERCISE 11 OF 65
Fill at bar 30 (a small one)
31 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
PART L
PART S7
CHORUS
PART AN
PART S13
PART AX
OUTRO
15 groovesYAAXQV+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spicy on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-30, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-41 and 96-99 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x-----------x---x-----------x---x-----------x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x--x-x--x---x---x--x-x--x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Spicy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-38 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-52 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S7 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spicy?

130 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 Spicy hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spicy?

15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED