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The Sinner · Memphis May Fire

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART S11
PART AD
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesBHADOS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sinner on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-39, toms through bars 40-54 and silence through bars 55-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 14, 18, 21 and 38 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-65 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 4 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sinner?

128 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 Sinner hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Sinner?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 14, 18, 21 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED