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Spillways · Ghost

EXERCISE 28 OF 50
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 39-41)
79 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesNAJKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spillways on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22 and ride through bars 23-34, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-28, 53-58 and 65-66, and 6 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-------|x-------x-----x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Spillways -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spillways?

128 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 Spillways hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Spillways?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED