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Defective · Dirge

Defective · Dirge
EXERCISE 3 OF 61
Fill at bar 4 (a small one)
28 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKCGOR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Defective on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 1 more place -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---g---x---x---x---g---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Defective -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 20, 22, 24 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-47 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Defective?

85 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 Defective 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?

122 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Defective?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 20, 22, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED