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Coping With Senility · Jejune

EXERCISE 33 OF 64
Fill at bar 124 (a small one)
184 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNFJBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coping With Senility on drums

209 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-64, snare through bars 65-80, hi-hat through bars 81-128 and snare through bars 129-161, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23-27, and 12 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 19 more.

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 -- F, B, N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-85 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Coping With Senility?

110 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 Coping With Senility hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 7:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 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 Coping With Senility?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED