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Behind Closed Doors · Wormrot

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEACJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behind Closed Doors on drums

81 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46 and snare through bars 47-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 4 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-x-----x-x-----|
Behind Closed Doors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 5, 17, 21, 22, 24 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-47 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Behind Closed Doors?

205 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 Behind Closed Doors hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Behind Closed Doors?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 5, 17, 21, 22, 24 and 29 more.

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