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Closet v2 · Fleshwater

EXERCISE 25 OF 42
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
54 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART K
4 groovesEKS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closet v2 on drums

88 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-46, hi-hat through bars 47-64, snare through bars 65-70, hi-hat through bars 71-81 and silence through bars 82-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 33 and 35, and 17 more places -- 23.5% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Closet v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 12 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 70-88 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Closet v2?

164 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 Closet v2 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 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 Closet v2?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED