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Controlling Lies - Demo · WildFire

EXERCISE 10 OF 32
Groove I -- Part I
143 / 246 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART I
OUTRO
5 groovesLIFJS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Controlling Lies - Demo on drums

238 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-169, snare through bars 170-171 and hi-hat through bars 172-238.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-79, 130-160 and 204-234 -- 39.1% 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---|
SD |--x---x---x-x-xx|
BD |x---x---x-------|
Controlling Lies - Demo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 36 and 11 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 -- L, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part F -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-177 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Controlling Lies - Demo?

201 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 Controlling Lies - Demo hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Controlling Lies - Demo?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED