ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 117 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 195
LENGTH: 6:40
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60 and ride through bars 61-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-----|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 36, 52, 56 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D, AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 25-37 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 14 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 36, 52, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED