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Svefn-g-englar · Sigur Rós

Svefn-g-englar · Sigur Rós
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART C
PART E
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS 7
PART E
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCES18A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Svefn-g-englar on drums

238 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-124 and silence through bars 125-156, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-24 and 37-44, and 28 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-60 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-158 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Svefn-g-englar?

117 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 Svefn-g-englar hard to play on drums?

33 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Svefn-g-englar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED