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Stairs · Design19
EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Fill at bar 71, 94 and 118
51 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART Q
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S7
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesIDQOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stairs on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, snare through bars 57-72, silence through bars 73-78, hi-hat through bars 79-103 and snare through bars 104-132, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-30, 49-54 and 59, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x-x---------x-|
Stairs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 55, 56, 71 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-104 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stairs?

141 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 Stairs hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stairs?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 55, 56, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED