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Stay With Me · Miki Matsubara

Stay With Me · Miki Matsubara
EXERCISE 26 OF 53
Join Part G to Part I (bars 56-58)
113 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART I
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLIGAHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay With Me on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 68-74 and 85-87, and 8 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Stay With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 28, 29, 37, 66, 67 and 11 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-12 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-36 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-50 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stay With Me?

108 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 With Me hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stay With Me?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 28, 29, 37, 66, 67 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED