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Собака · Aesthetics Across The Color Line

Собака · Aesthetics Across The Color Line
EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 41 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART W
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAWAIS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Собака on drums

76 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, toms through bars 26-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-57, silence through bars 58-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 2 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Собака -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 25 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, B (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-53 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part W -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-68 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Собака?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Собака hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Собака?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 25 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED