← SONGS

Surasiu · Katarsis

Surasiu · Katarsis
EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Join Part C to Break 2 (bars 36-38)
39 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEHCS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surasiu on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 2-37, silence through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-48, toms through bars 49-51, snare through bars 52-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 4 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Surasiu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 46, 47, 50, 51, 55, 56 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, C, E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-49 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 46-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Surasiu?

80 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 Surasiu hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Surasiu?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 46, 47, 50, 51, 55, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED