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Sports · Beach Bunny

EXERCISE 14 OF 24
Run B1 · Part B (bars 21-24)
50 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART C
PART E
PART F
PART B
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJECGB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sports on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-43, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 29-36 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Sports -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 28 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sports?

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 Sports hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sports?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 28 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED