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The Gift · Kevin Sherwood

EXERCISE 12 OF 88
Groove H
54 / 141 BARS COVERED
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PART D
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART O
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesZLOAMD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Gift on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-34, toms through bars 35-42 and snare through bars 43-44, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52, 54 and 56, and 8 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
BD |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
The Gift -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-72 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Gift?

129 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 The Gift hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 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 The Gift?

25 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED