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Stillwater · KU-DETA

Stillwater · KU-DETA
EXERCISE 3 OF 51
3-bar fill at bar 53
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0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AJ
PART L
PART R
PART AJ
PART AY
PART BF
OUTRO
BREAK 7
16 groovesBNRLBFS20+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stillwater on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, toms through bars 26-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37, silence through bars 38-40 and toms through bars 41-45, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 78-80, 82-83 and 86-88, and 1 more place -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79           80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |--x-g---x-g-|--x-g-------|
SD |--x---------|--x-----x---|
T1 |------------|----------xx|
BD |x---xxx-x---|x-----x-----|
Stillwater -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- BF, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part L -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-37 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-47 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AY -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stillwater?

150 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 Stillwater hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stillwater?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED