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1987 · Betraying Lizard

EXERCISE 10 OF 76
Groove H -- Part H
93 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHTMV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1987 on drums

260 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-30, ride through bars 31-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, ride through bars 46-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-69, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-96, 98-105 and 212-219, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
1987 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 26, 30, 34 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- T, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 1987?

182 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 1987 hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 1987?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 26, 30, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED