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Aggressor · Ektomorf

Aggressor · Ektomorf
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCAFLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aggressor on drums

111 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-23, silence through bars 24-28, snare through bars 29-56 and toms through bars 57-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4 and 7-14, and 5 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-24 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aggressor?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aggressor hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Aggressor?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED