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Still Winning · Intervals, Samuel Mezzo

Still Winning · Intervals, Samuel Mezzo
EXERCISE 9 OF 56
Groove AD -- Part AD (a two-bar phrase)
12 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
CHORUS
PART N
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAADAMNAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Winning on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and snare through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 34-36 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x------------|----------------|
HH |------o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x----x-xxxxxx|xxxxx-x--x--x-x-|
Still Winning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 43 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part AD and Part AM -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-28 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-34 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Winning?

145 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 Winning hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Still Winning?

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED