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commatose · Glass Beach

EXERCISE 28 OF 96
Join Part J to Part D (bars 60-62)
80 / 271 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART D
PART S2
PART H
PART J
PART D
PART R
CHORUS
PART AV
BREAK 2
PART BO
PART BS
PART BX
23 groovesS16ABAVBXBO+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play commatose on drums

271 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
9:02
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, silence through bars 23-29 and ride through bars 30-45, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 91-95, 99-103 and 107-111, and 3 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91               92
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-------x---x-|
commatose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 45, 55, 63 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- AB, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BX -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part S4 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-47 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-74 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is commatose?

120 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 commatose hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 9:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 commatose?

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 45, 55, 63 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED