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Comedown · Bush

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove C -- Part C
54 / 181 BARS COVERED
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHLCAAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comedown on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-68, hi-hat through bars 69-92, ride through bars 93-121, silence through bars 122-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-140, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55 and 57, and 23 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Comedown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 32, 36, 52, 56, 68, 92 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- L, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-76 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Comedown?

140 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 Comedown hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Comedown?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 32, 36, 52, 56, 68, 92 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED