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Spirits Away · Erra

EXERCISE 13 OF 67
Join Part G to Break (bars 32-34)
58 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
BREAK
PART L
PART AC
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDLACAJAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spirits Away on drums

145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-33, silence through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-59, hi-hat through bars 60-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------X-------X-------X-------|
SD |----------------X---------------|
BD |X---X---X---X-------X---X---X---|
Spirits Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 47, 60, 61, 65, 84 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-56 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spirits Away?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spirits Away hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spirits Away?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 47, 60, 61, 65, 84 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED