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Spy Dolphin (AI) · Delta Sleep

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove L -- Part L
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0 / 73 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART BD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBLS15BDBN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spy Dolphin (AI) on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-47, silence through bars 48-50, snare through bars 51-62, hi-hat through bars 63-75 and snare through bars 76-82, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 11.2% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Spy Dolphin (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- L, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-59 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spy Dolphin (AI)?

150 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 Spy Dolphin (AI) hard to play on drums?

53 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 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 Spy Dolphin (AI)?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED