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SPINE · Wesghost

SPINE · Wesghost
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove D -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesDHBS4C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SPINE on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, silence through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-54 and snare through bars 55-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 18-25 and 42-57, and 3 more places -- 56.3% 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-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
SPINE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 73 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-20 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-31 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is SPINE?

150 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 SPINE 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 SPINE?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 73 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED