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Deadlocked · Youth Fountain
EXERCISE 2 OF 19
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deadlocked on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and toms through bars 42-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 54-55, and 5 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|x---------------|
RD |---xxx--x-x---x-|--x--xxxxxxx----|
SD |----x----x--x---|----x----x--x--x|
T2 |----------------|-------------x--|
FT |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x--x--x----x-x--|x--x--xx---x----|
Deadlocked -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-54 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deadlocked?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Deadlocked hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Deadlocked?

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED