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Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off) · Point North

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
7 groovesFAGBO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off) on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34 and silence through bars 35-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 38, 42, 46 and 16 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 16-25 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-55 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off)?

120 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 Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off) hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Below The Belt (feat. Set It Off)?

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 38, 42, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED