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Swing · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 16 OF 76
Fill at bar 22 and 54 (a small one)
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PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Z
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHEAFAJQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swing on drums

151 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, toms through bars 25-27 and snare through bars 28-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Swing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14, 16 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Swing?

185 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 Swing hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Swing?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED