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-C- · Arachnophobia

EXERCISE 25 OF 88
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 44-46)
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CHORUS
PART G
PART AD
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART AM
PART AP
CHORUS 3
PART AG
BREAK 2
15 groovesNS22BIGAM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 13
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play -C- on drums

222 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, silence through bars 11-13, ride through bars 14-19, toms through bars 20-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 34-37, and 13 more places -- 25.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
-C- -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 21, 22 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BI -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-33 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is -C-?

144 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 -C- hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 -C-?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 21, 22 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED