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Against the Grain · Unsane

EXERCISE 33 OF 44
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDQACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Against the Grain on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-36, ride through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-57, snare through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 12 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 36 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-76 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-101 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Against the Grain?

85 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 Against the Grain hard to play on drums?

50 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?

104 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Against the Grain?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 36 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED