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UNDER THE TREE · SiM

EXERCISE 26 OF 49
5-bar fill at bar 41
56 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
9 groovesHOMDAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play UNDER THE TREE on drums

88 bars, 4:45, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-33 and 77-82 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-x-----x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-x-------x-----|
UNDER THE TREE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is UNDER THE TREE?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is UNDER THE TREE hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 UNDER THE TREE?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED