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sptf · dydi

sptf · dydi
EXERCISE 9 OF 68
Fill at bar 26, 30, 80 and 84 (a small one)
66 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S11
PART S14
PART AC
PART AD
14 groovesFS11BCAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sptf on drums

225 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:30
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, ride through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-66, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 155 and 157, and 5 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    155
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--------------x-|
sptf -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 30 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- H, AC -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-25 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is sptf?

120 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 sptf hard to play on drums?

58 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 7:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in sptf?

9 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 30 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED