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Suppose · Secondhand Serenade

Suppose · Secondhand Serenade
EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesHBABOU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suppose on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Suppose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 15, 16, 30, 43, 48 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, G, AB -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-87 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-45 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-75 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-89 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suppose?

153 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 Suppose hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 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 Suppose?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 15, 16, 30, 43, 48 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED