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Spiderwebs · away with words

Spiderwebs · away with words
EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Groove H -- Part H
78 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H, PART I
PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART S14
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNKEIB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spiderwebs on drums

152 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-64, ride through bars 65-67 and snare through bars 68-75, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 13 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x---x-----|
BD |--x-----------x-|
Spiderwebs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 45, 53, 55, 59, 81, 83 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, N -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 39-59 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spiderwebs?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spiderwebs hard to play on drums?

43 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Spiderwebs?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 45, 53, 55, 59, 81, 83 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED