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Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3 · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART Q
PART A
CHORUS 2
7 groovesEANJQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3 on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, toms through bars 30-37, ride through bars 38-45 and kick and crashes through bars 46-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                        2
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-x-x---x---x---x-------|----x-x-----x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x--x----xxxx|xxxx--------x-----x-x---|
T1 |------------------x-----|------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-----xx----x-------|----x-x---x---x-x-----x-|
Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 27, 30, 31, 32 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Strawberry Swisher Pt. 3?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 17, 27, 30, 31, 32 and 16 more.

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