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Swamp Thing · The Chameleons

Swamp Thing · The Chameleons
EXERCISE 3 OF 60
Groove C -- Part C
41 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART Q
PART S
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesVDGBC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swamp Thing on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-64 and snare through bars 65-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 113-126, 129 and 131, and 5 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113              114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|x---------------|
HH |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|x-------x-------|
Swamp Thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 60, 73, 90, 102 and 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- V, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-48 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-69 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-103 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Swamp Thing?

98 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 Swamp Thing hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Swamp Thing?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 60, 73, 90, 102 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED