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Collect Sadness · Whirr

EXERCISE 30 OF 39
Fill at bar 177 (a small one)
148 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART G
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesIDGCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Collect Sadness on drums

194 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
36/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, snare through bars 50-81, hi-hat through bars 82-97 and snare through bars 98-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-160 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    130
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----------x---|
BD |x-----------x---|
Collect Sadness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 57, 69, 77, 105 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- I, G, E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 73-100 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Collect Sadness?

150 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 Collect Sadness hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Collect Sadness?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 57, 69, 77, 105 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED