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"Spork" · Super Sometimes

"Spork" · Super Sometimes
EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Join Part E to Part H (bars 27-29)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBETHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Spork" on drums

94 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-35, snare through bars 36-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
"Spork" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 34-63 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-86 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is "Spork"?

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

Is "Spork" hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 "Spork"?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED