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Spirit Desire · Tigers Jaw

EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-16)
106 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spirit Desire on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-88, toms through bars 89-96, hi-hat through bars 97-128 and toms through bars 129-136, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-55, 57-80 and 97-120, and 1 more place -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 88, 96, 128, 136 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spirit Desire?

112 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 Spirit Desire hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Spirit Desire?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 88, 96, 128, 136 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED