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EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-12)
83 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
4 groovesEIS7AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DDT on drums

95 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, ride through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-87, ride through bars 88-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 21 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x---x-------------------|
HH |------------x---x---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x-x-----x---x---x-|
HF |------------x-----------|
DDT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DDT?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 DDT hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 DDT?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED