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Bored · Return to Dust

Bored · Return to Dust
EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Groove E
52 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART H, OUTRO
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesKBHGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bored on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-51, snare through bars 52-54, hi-hat through bars 55-75, snare through bars 76-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-x---x---x--x|
Bored -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 18, 30, 38, 46, 62 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 12-65 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-71 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bored?

86 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 Bored hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bored?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 18, 30, 38, 46, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED