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EXERCISE 15 OF 92
Groove K -- Part K
63 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART G
PART K
PART N
PART U
PART AB
CHORUS
PART AN
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAGFABU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 6
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dedication To Flesh on drums

146 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37 and snare through bars 38-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 37 and 70, and 5 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Dedication To Flesh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 16, 20, 24 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-37 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dedication To Flesh?

170 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 Dedication To Flesh hard to play on drums?

62 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dedication To Flesh?

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 16, 20, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED