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Sulfur · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 23 OF 50
2-bar fill at bar 28 and 1 more
69 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART H
PART O
PART S8
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFSHOS8+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sulfur on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 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
108
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-10, snare through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-25, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 10 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----g-|
BD |x---------------|
Sulfur -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- R, O, S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-80 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sulfur?

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 Sulfur hard to play on drums?

60 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Sulfur?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED