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Adderall · shame
EXERCISE 14 OF 47
2-bar fill at bar 51
50 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCYJNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adderall on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, snare through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-50, toms through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70 and snare through bars 71-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 8-9 and 11-12, and 7 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Adderall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Adderall?

83 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 Adderall hard to play on drums?

61 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Adderall?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED