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An Infinite Regression · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 4 OF 55
Groove C -- Part C
50 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLS1FS10Z+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Infinite Regression on drums

173 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 179 BPM, 3:05 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-38, snare through bars 39-52, toms through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-84, toms through bars 85-88 and snare through bars 89-107, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 61, and 24 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-|
An Infinite Regression -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 38, 46, 48, 52, 53, 54 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-79 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-58 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-81 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-106 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is An Infinite Regression?

179 BPM, in 3/4, 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 An Infinite Regression hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 An Infinite Regression?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 38, 46, 48, 52, 53, 54 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED