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EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBS10ZE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SWAGD on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49 and snare through bars 50-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-38 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part S10 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SWAGD?

82 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 SWAGD hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 SWAGD?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED