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Dedicated · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 29 OF 51
Fill at bar 66 (a small one)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBHKCA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dedicated on drums

140 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- 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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-32, toms through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-52 and ride through bars 53-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-xxx-x-x-|
Dedicated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 42, 50, 54 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-44 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-51 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-122 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dedicated?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Dedicated 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Dedicated?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 33, 34, 42, 50, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED