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Spooks · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
50 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART M
PART S
PART V
PART Y
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACMFCV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spooks on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-44, snare through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131, 135 and 139, and 2 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----x--x-----x--x--x--------x-----|
BD |x--------x--------------x-----------x-----------|
Spooks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 32, 57, 65 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AC, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spooks?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Spooks hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Spooks?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 32, 57, 65 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED