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Staying Still · Noah Kahan

EXERCISE 25 OF 36
Groove AA
63 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
PART E
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBACLEN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Staying Still on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, toms through bars 22-26, ride through bars 27-35, hi-hat through bars 36-53 and toms through bars 54-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Staying Still?

83 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 Staying Still 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?

91 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Staying Still?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED