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15 (drop c) · crisis ui

15 (drop c) · crisis ui
EXERCISE 28 OF 63
Groove L
141 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART P
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
8 groovesKCGPE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 15 (drop c) on drums

183 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-93, silence through bars 94-96, ride through bars 97-107 and toms through bars 108-124, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-59 and 101-107, and 3 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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
15 (drop c) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-37 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 91-143 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-125 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 15 (drop c)?

193 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 15 (drop c) hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 15 (drop c)?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED