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Connection Terminated · Wolf Spider AZ

Connection Terminated · Wolf Spider AZ
EXERCISE 8 OF 51
Groove J
73 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART Z
CHORUS 3
12 groovesNS7AZQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Connection Terminated on drums

170 bars, 11:01, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
11:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-21, snare through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-52, snare through bars 53-72 and silence through bars 73-116, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-32, 59-71 and 150-153, and 1 more place -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Connection Terminated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 136, 141 and 154.

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 -- N, Z -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Connection Terminated?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Connection Terminated hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 11:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Connection Terminated?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 136, 141 and 154.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED