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Confined · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 23 OF 57
Join Part H to Part K (bars 43-45)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
PART A
PART G
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
PART G
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSAGHQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Confined on drums

129 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, snare through bars 61-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 37-44 and 116, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------x-x-x-|--------xxxxxxxx|
Confined -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 36 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Confined?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Confined hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Confined?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 36 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED