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Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider · Tangled Hair

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Groove AA -- Part AA
82 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA
PART E
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AF
PART AS
PART AP
PART BH
OUTRO
13 groovesGAPBKASAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 7:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, ride through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-23 and ride through bars 24-25, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-96 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------x-----------------------x-------|
Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AS, BK -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider?

95 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Yeah, It Does Look Like A Spider?

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED