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Coded to Conformity · finideaspsy

EXERCISE 29 OF 57
Fill at bar 44 and 52 (a small one)
64 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
PART O
PART K
PART W
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHKLCW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coded to Conformity on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-55, snare through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-69 and ride through bars 70-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 32-35 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x--xx--|
Coded to Conformity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 23 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-22 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Coded to Conformity?

88 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 Coded to Conformity hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Coded to Conformity?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED