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You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) · Indochine

EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Run E3 · Outro (bars 92-100)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBES1S10S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-85, silence through bars 86-92, hi-hat through bars 93-101 and silence through bars 102-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-27 and 29-41, and 4 more places -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 28, 64 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 40-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-93 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)?

136 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 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 28, 64 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED