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Damned If I Do · Vincent Mason

Damned If I Do · Vincent Mason
EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Fill at bar 52
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0 / 18 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Damned If I Do on drums

62 bars, 3:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Damned If I Do -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Damned If I Do?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Damned If I Do hard to play on drums?

38 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Damned If I Do?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED