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Switch Off The Lights · Arclite

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove K -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AE
OUTRO
9 groovesKNRAKAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Switch Off The Lights on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-109, ride through bars 110-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-141, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22 and 24, and 12 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Switch Off The Lights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-49 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part R and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-129 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AE -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Switch Off The Lights?

132 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 Switch Off The Lights hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Switch Off The Lights?

12 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED