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clean. · Static Dress

EXERCISE 25 OF 50
Groove W
103 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART C
PART M
CHORUS
PART I
PART T
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPCIMQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play clean. on drums

134 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 19 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
clean. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 48, 74, 82, 116, 124 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- P, Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-59 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-55 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is clean.?

190 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 clean. 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 clean.?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 48, 74, 82, 116, 124 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED