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Sponge · Superheaven

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove H -- Part H
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PART A
PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNAHAEE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sponge on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-31 and 33-34, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- H, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-52 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-74 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sponge?

130 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 Sponge hard to play on drums?

50 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Sponge?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 35, 36 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED