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Control · Puddle Of Mudd

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 31 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesADGHI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Control on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-48, toms through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17-19, and 8 more places -- 43.4% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-xx----|
Control -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 52, 56, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-49 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Control?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Control hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Control?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 52, 56, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED