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Swallowed · Bush

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS3S6DS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swallowed on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, silence through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-55, silence through bars 56-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 31-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Swallowed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 76, 80 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-77 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-89 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Swallowed?

90 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 Swallowed hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Swallowed?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 76, 80 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED