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Defensive Personalities · Death

EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Groove H -- Part H
28 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART H
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS9CGIL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Defensive Personalities on drums

107 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 202 BPM, 3:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 3-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 8 more places -- 24.6% 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+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Defensive Personalities -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 34, 42 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-35 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-50 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Defensive Personalities?

202 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Defensive Personalities hard to play on drums?

63 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Defensive Personalities?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 34, 42 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED