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Static · Sleep Theory
EXERCISE 16 OF 57
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
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PART H
PART J
PART L
PART N
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART X
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDNLHV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Static on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 41-45 and 61-63, and 5 more places -- 33% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Static -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- N, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-42 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Static?

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

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Static?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 40, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED