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Apartment 213 · Macabre

Apartment 213 · Macabre
EXERCISE 21 OF 57
Groove O
44 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAPEATALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apartment 213 on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-18 and snare through bars 19-20, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 15, and 5 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---xxxx--------x-------|
BD |x---xxxx--------x---xxxx--x-x-x-|
Apartment 213 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 44 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-85 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-73 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apartment 213?

105 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 Apartment 213 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Apartment 213?

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED