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Spirit In The Sky · Norman Greenbaum

Spirit In The Sky · Norman Greenbaum
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove D -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spirit In The Sky on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-35, 38-39 and 42-48, and 11 more places -- 81.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Spirit In The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 49, 57, 89 and 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spirit In The Sky?

129 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 In The Sky hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Sky?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 49, 57, 89 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED