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Sylvia · Focus

Sylvia · Focus
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesECS8S1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sylvia on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-74, silence through bars 75-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-31 and 35-41, and 3 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Sylvia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 83 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sylvia?

108 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 Sylvia hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sylvia?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 83 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED