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Song List:

Santeria (Sublime)

Better Than Revenge (Taylor Swift)

Get Him Back (Olivia Rodrigo)

Wonderwall (Oasis)

Better Than Revenge – Full Form Key of E

Band Reduction

Santeria Band Reduction

We are going to move the key for Better Than Revenge.  Here is a transposed track that is down a 4th which will likely be our key:

Get Him Back

Verse 

12 measures drums and bass

Chorus 

Everyone

Verse 2

4 measures drums and vox 

4 add drums

Chorus 

Everyone

Bridge

8 Just Guitar and vox 

(Workshop keep a capella to end)

Alia

Alia for Reggae and Ska drums, there is something super tough to nail. Notice the girl in the video crushing this drum part, the snare hit is WAAAAY on the “back” of the beat. It almost feels either lazy or late.  Her tempo is PERFECT, but all the snare hits just feel a bit behind.  Please listen to this tune, and even other ska and reggae songs to familiarize yourself to this very different style

Bliss

Ember

Nevada

Violet

Familiarize yourself  with Santeria.  You have a lot of stylistic freedom in this song.  The sooner you are familiar with the toon the sooner you can start adding your own Violet-ness to it.

Fall 2023 Band Session – Important Dates: