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Your Secret's Safe With Me · 12 RODS

EXERCISE 7 OF 11
Run C1 · Part C (bars 126-130)
24 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 5
BREAK 7
PART C
CHORUS 7
BREAK 8
12 groovesBS11S3S20A+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Secret's Safe With Me on drums

167 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
17/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-35, silence through bars 36-45 and ride through bars 46-50, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 126-130 and 141-145 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    128
    1.....2.....3.....
BD |x-----------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----|
Your Secret's Safe With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Secret's Safe With Me?

95 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 Your Secret's Safe With Me hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED