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1 · State of Ruin

EXERCISE 14 OF 93
Groove F
87 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AK
PART D
PART K
PART N
18 groovesYDKNAK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1 on drums

224 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-73, ride through bars 74-83 and snare through bars 84-87, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 170-176, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-38 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-202 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 1?

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 1 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 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 1?

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED