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Surreal · Flawed Mangoes
EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Groove J
54 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIACS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surreal on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-66 and snare through bars 67-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 35, and 9 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-x---x-x-------x-|
Surreal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 23, 36, 44, 57, 61 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surreal?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Surreal hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Surreal?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 23, 36, 44, 57, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED