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A Problem Yet To Be Solved · Anata

EXERCISE 19 OF 85
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-21)
110 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART I
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
7 groovesOTIAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Problem Yet To Be Solved on drums

199 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 73-80 and 145-151, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
A Problem Yet To Be Solved -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Problem Yet To Be Solved?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Problem Yet To Be Solved hard to play on drums?

100 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?

199 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 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 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 Problem Yet To Be Solved?

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED