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The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) · Sirca Curvive

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Fill at bar 16 and 64
75 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFACXQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) on drums

155 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-48, toms through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-96 and snare through bars 97-155.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 13 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                                    2
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------g-----------g-----------|g-----------g-----------g-----------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------g-g-g-|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------------|------------------------------------|
The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-69 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-121 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive)?

139 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED