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Stay For Something · CMAT

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 25 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDBGS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay For Something on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 2-26, silence through bars 27-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 32% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Stay For Something -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 49, 77, 81, 93, 97 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 25-78 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-78 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stay For Something?

120 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 Stay For Something hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Stay For Something?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 49, 77, 81, 93, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED