ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Addicted on drums

88 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 141 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 88
LENGTH: 3:45
DIFFICULTY: 44/100

ride through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, ride through bars 38-50 and silence through bars 51-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3, 5 and 17-23, and 4 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17                       18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|--------x---x-------x-x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------x-x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-------|x---x---x---x---x---x-x-|

Addicted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 15, 16, 24, 27 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 30-50 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Addicted?

141 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Addicted hard to play on drums?

44 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Addicted?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 15, 16, 24, 27 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED