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Deep Red · Movements

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
144 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 146 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCAXSS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deep Red on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 20, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, X -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-115 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Deep Red?

129 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 Deep Red hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deep Red?

4 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 20, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED