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Artificial Red full song · Mad Season

EXERCISE 19 OF 23
7-bar fill at bar 42
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0 / 23 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAS5DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Artificial Red full song on drums

75 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 6:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-50 and silence through bars 51-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-17 and 23-29, and 1 more place -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------r-----------r-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Artificial Red full song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 30, 34 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-39 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Artificial Red full song?

73 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Artificial Red full song hard to play on drums?

36 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Artificial Red full song?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 30, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED