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Swim · Chase Atlantic

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1S7S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swim on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
22/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-41, hi-hat through bars 42-54, silence through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-35, 42-54 and 57-71, and 1 more place -- 93.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|--x-x---------x-|
Swim -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Swim?

120 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 Swim hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED