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SPV4 · uuyuyuyuyyyuyuyyuyu

SPV4 · uuyuyuyuyyyuyuyyuyu
EXERCISE 23 OF 50
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 10-35)
37 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBRXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SPV4 on drums

60 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, toms through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51 and ride through bars 52-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 44-46 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
SPV4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-48 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-56 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SPV4?

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 SPV4 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 SPV4?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED