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! · Alternative Competition 3

EXERCISE 7 OF 8
Run D2 · Outro 2 (bars 56-152)
48 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 97 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ! on drums

152 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-152.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 32 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is !?

220 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 ! hard to play on drums?

46 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in !?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED