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Spooky Drum Cover · Atlanta Rhythm Section

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 15-17)
68 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFMCAAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spooky Drum Cover on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-56, hi-hat through bars 57-69, ride through bars 70-128 and snare through bars 129-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 22 and 26-29, and 18 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Spooky Drum Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-64 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-74 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spooky Drum Cover?

110 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 Spooky Drum Cover hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spooky Drum Cover?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED