ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Confusion on drums

194 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 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: 194
LENGTH: 6:48
DIFFICULTY: 58/100

snare through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-62, snare through bars 63-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-72, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-38, 49 and 51, and 16 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----------g-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----x-----------------------|x--------x--------x-----x-----------------------|

Confusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 25, 26, 39, 40, 44, 57 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Confusion?

120 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 Confusion hard to play on drums?

58 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Confusion?

13 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 25, 26, 39, 40, 44, 57 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED