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A Sad Cartoon · Loathe

EXERCISE 27 OF 71
Join Part K to Part L (bars 35-37)
69 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART L
PART F
PART K
PART L
PART D
CHORUS
PART AE
PART S13
PART AK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
16 groovesUFAEDAK+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Sad Cartoon on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-84, 86-88 and 90-92, and 1 more place -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x-x---------x---|
A Sad Cartoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 18 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 -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Sad Cartoon?

138 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sad Cartoon hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Sad Cartoon?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED