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STEP UP! · Silent-Spring

STEP UP! · Silent-Spring
EXERCISE 21 OF 48
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 43-45)
55 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
PART B
PART F
PART S3
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIRBWO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play STEP UP! on drums

92 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-19, silence through bars 20-22, ride through bars 23-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 39 and 41, and 3 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
STEP UP! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 37, 51, 52 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, L (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-44 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-57 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is STEP UP!?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is STEP UP! hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 STEP UP!?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 37, 51, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED