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Awful · Hole

EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Groove H -- Part H
78 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBHKL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awful on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-88, snare through bars 89-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 56-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Awful?

138 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 Awful hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Awful?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED