ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Confessions (With Solo) on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 154
LENGTH: 4:06
DIFFICULTY: 78/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-58, ride through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-105, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 49-54, and 1 more place -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                                               34
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----o-----x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----|x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----x-----o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x--------------x--------x-----x--x--|
BD |x--------x--------------x--------x--------------|x--------x--------------x--------x--------------|

Confessions (With Solo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part C and Part N -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part C and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Confessions (With Solo)?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Confessions (With Solo) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Confessions (With Solo)?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED