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Swamped · Gaijin

Swamped · Gaijin
EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove H
43 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swamped on drums

78 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-59, toms through bars 60-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 53, and 6 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|xxxxx-------x---|
Swamped -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 48, 50, 52, 64 and 4 more.

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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-71 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Swamped?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Swamped 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Swamped?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 48, 50, 52, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED