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Acceptance · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 27 PASSED · 149 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBSCIJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acceptance on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
26/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, snare through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52, snare through bars 53-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-39 and 58-65, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Acceptance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, S, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-31 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-50 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-122 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Acceptance?

112 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 Acceptance hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Acceptance?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED