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cubicle dialogue · Static Dress

EXERCISE 28 OF 69
Join Part S to Part F (bars 44-46)
105 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART F
PART D
PART H
PART S
PART F
PART M
PART S
PART S15
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesARFMSS15+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cubicle dialogue on drums

168 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-73 and silence through bars 74-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-143, 145-147 and 149-151, and 2 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    137
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
cubicle dialogue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 61, 64, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AR, M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is cubicle dialogue?

176 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 cubicle dialogue hard to play on drums?

48 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 cubicle dialogue?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 61, 64, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED