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BOUND BY AFFLICTION · FINAL RESTING PLACE

EXERCISE 31 OF 71
Groove M
74 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART D
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART Y
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOYJDG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BOUND BY AFFLICTION on drums

115 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-59, hi-hat through bars 60-67, snare through bars 68-79, hi-hat through bars 80-91 and snare through bars 92-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26 and 50, and 13 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- L, O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-42 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BOUND BY AFFLICTION?

224 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 BOUND BY AFFLICTION hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 BOUND BY AFFLICTION?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED