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Switchback · Celldweller

Switchback · Celldweller
EXERCISE 25 OF 57
Run D2 · Part D (bars 35-38)
96 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
BREAK
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAJBGQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Switchback on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-58, snare through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-70 and silence through bars 71-78, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 21-30 and 47-57, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 32, 34, 38 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-14 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-21 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Switchback?

112 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 Switchback hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Switchback?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 32, 34, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED