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Still Swingin · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 12 OF 41
Groove G
74 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART S
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKJSS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Swingin on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, snare through bars 25-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61 and snare through bars 62-77, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x---|
Still Swingin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 33, 37, 60 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-62 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-88 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-104 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Swingin?

140 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 Still Swingin hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Still Swingin?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 33, 37, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED