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Street Spirit · Harakiri For The Sky

EXERCISE 12 OF 49
Run E1 · Part E (bars 25-37)
94 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIMOES1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Street Spirit on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-36, snare through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52, snare through bars 53-79 and toms through bars 80-82, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 53, and 10 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
Street Spirit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 76, 96, 112 and 3 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 -- I, O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-77 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-92 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Street Spirit?

130 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 Street Spirit hard to play on drums?

45 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Street Spirit?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 76, 96, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED