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Congested · Apocalypse Hoboken

Congested · Apocalypse Hoboken
EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
54 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGQBE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Congested on drums

107 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37 and snare through bars 38-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 56-62, and 3 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 29 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-87 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Congested?

190 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 Congested hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Congested?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 29 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED