Spirit · Al Jarreau

80 bars, 4:24, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 29 and 34, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SPIRIT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 26, 28, 30, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-25.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGPJAHC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spirit?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Spirit hard to play on drums?

49 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spirit?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 26, 28, 30, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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