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Squonk · Genesis

EXERCISE 15 OF 75
Groove L
65 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART Q
PART W
PART Z
PART W
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesBWQZAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Squonk on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:26 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-54, toms through bars 55-56, ride through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-11, 13-19 and 21-22, and 3 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Squonk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Squonk?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Squonk 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Squonk?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED