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111 · Unprocessed

EXERCISE 17 OF 60
Groove I
69 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
PART S4
PART S7
CHORUS
PART S10
PART J
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesACWHS10S18+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 111 on drums

176 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-14, silence through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-36, toms through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 33 and 41, and 9 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------|
111 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J, AC -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-17 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part S4 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 111?

240 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 111 hard to play on drums?

45 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 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 111?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED