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EXERCISE 2 OF 42
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
7 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 7
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 8
12 groovesGXS14OU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spoonman on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-15, toms through bars 16-24, ride through bars 25-29, toms through bars 30-32 and silence through bars 33-38, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 17-18, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                            8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----------------------------|----------o-----|
SD |----f-------f-------f-----f-|----f----f------|
T2 |---------------x------------|----------------|
FT |xxx---xx-xx-----x-x---xxx---|xxx---xx--------|
BD |x--x---x--x--x--x--x----xx--|x--x---x--x-----|
Spoonman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 24, 26, 28 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 7 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spoonman?

93 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 Spoonman hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Spoonman?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 24, 26, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED