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Decrement · sillyserpent

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 77 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART AB
PART BB
PART S8
PART E
OUTRO
10 groovesKABES11S8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decrement on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-18, toms through bars 19-25 and kick and crashes through bars 26-28, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 30, and 3 more places -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Decrement -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decrement?

140 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 Decrement hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Decrement?

26 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED