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Surrender · Cheap Trick

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surrender on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-43, snare through bars 44-45 and ride through bars 46-74, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 11-33, and 19 more places -- 72.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Surrender -- 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 8, 96, 107, 111, 114, 119 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Surrender?

138 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 Surrender hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Surrender?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 96, 107, 111, 114, 119 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED