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12/23/98 · Poison The Well

EXERCISE 23 OF 52
2-bar fill at bar 46
68 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDYIAGU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 12/23/98 on drums

105 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, snare through bars 22-38, hi-hat through bars 39-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-71 and 73, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x---------x-----|
HH |----oooo----oooo|----oooo--------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---------x-----|
12/23/98 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Y, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-42 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part U and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 12/23/98?

195 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 12/23/98 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 12/23/98?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED