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Sway · Bic Runga

Sway · Bic Runga
EXERCISE 18 OF 21
Run D3 · Outro (bars 82-98)
102 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sway on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-69 and snare through bars 70-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 8 more places -- 44.7% 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
HH |--g---g---g---g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-58 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-85 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sway?

95 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 Sway hard to play on drums?

41 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sway?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED