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Squall2 · 04 Limited sazabys

Squall2 · 04 Limited sazabys
EXERCISE 29 OF 57
Hold Groove R for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 38-45)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRBABMJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Squall2 on drums

153 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-51, snare through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-59, snare through bars 60-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-139, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-44 and 46-51, and 7 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Squall2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- R, AB -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-22 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Squall2?

200 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 Squall2 hard to play on drums?

60 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?

153 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Squall2?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED