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A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) · Nameless 272

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART S9
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesANHLT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) on drums

171 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-39, hi-hat through bars 40-57, snare through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73 and snare through bars 74-81, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 12 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x---|
A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 57, 65, 73, 89, 115 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-171 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-77 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-99 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S9 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling)?

176 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 A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling) hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A 1000 Papercuts (is a Bittersweet feeling)?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 57, 65, 73, 89, 115 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED