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Structure · Odd Sweetheart

Structure · Odd Sweetheart
EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Groove E
39 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesBFIQO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Structure on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-22, snare through bars 23-28, ride through bars 29-42 and snare through bars 43-44, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x-x-------|x--x--x-x-------|
SD |---x----x-xxxxxx|---x----x---x---|
T1 |----------------|----------x--x--|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |x--x--x-x-------|x--x--x-x--x----|
Structure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 38, 40, 46, 52, 66 and 1 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 -- B, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-39 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-53 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-67 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Structure?

90 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 Structure hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Structure?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 38, 40, 46, 52, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED