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A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction · City Of Caterpillar

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove W -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART N
PART R
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWBTRS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction on drums

107 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-54, toms through bars 55-58, snare through bars 59-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-73, 75-81 and 83-89 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x--x-x-|
A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 26, 28, 30 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- W, T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-70 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction hard to play on drums?

49 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heart Filled Reaction to Dissatisfaction?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 26, 28, 30 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED