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EXERCISE 25 OF 26
Join Outro to Break (bars 76-78)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, BREAK
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesFCIBS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 11/8 test on drums

86 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-65 and toms through bars 66-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 4 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6..
CC |x-----------------------x--------|
HH |------o-----o-----x--------------|
SD |------------x-----------x--x--x--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x--------|
HF |----------------x----------------|
11/8 test -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 34, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is 11/8 test?

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

Is 11/8 test hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 11/8 test?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 34, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED