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Spirit · Ghost

EXERCISE 6 OF 54
Groove C
106 / 293 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKPJTS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spirit on drums

293 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 7:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
7:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, toms through bars 22-45, hi-hat through bars 46-89, ride through bars 90-91 and snare through bars 92-93, and 51 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-51, 54-59 and 66-72, and 5 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |--x-x---x-x-|
Spirit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 60, 65, 73 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J, Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-172 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spirit?

122 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 7:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Spirit?

7 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 60, 65, 73 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED