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Dead And Bloated · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove N -- Part N
0 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDNHKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead And Bloated on drums

80 bars, 5:07, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-50, 59-63 and 65-66, and 1 more place -- 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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x--xx--x--|
Dead And Bloated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 22, 26, 29, 40, 44 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-23 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dead And Bloated?

62 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 Dead And Bloated hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Dead And Bloated?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 22, 26, 29, 40, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED