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Cult Of Personality · Living Colour

EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove C -- Part C
45 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART C
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCLDG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cult Of Personality on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-61, ride through bars 62-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-16 and 19-20, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Cult Of Personality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 9, 36, 40, 65, 70 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cult Of Personality?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cult Of Personality hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cult Of Personality?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 9, 36, 40, 65, 70 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED