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Sur Le Fil · AqME

EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Run I3 · Outro (bars 68-79)
72 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIFS1PD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sur Le Fil on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-57, ride through bars 58-65, silence through bars 66-67 and snare through bars 68-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 50-52, and 4 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--------x-x----|
Sur Le Fil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 45, 49, 75 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-26 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-76 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sur Le Fil?

94 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 Sur Le Fil 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Sur Le Fil?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 35, 45, 49, 75 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED