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Defiance · Yes?

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove AD -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART E
PART I
PART X
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS10ADIXE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Defiance on drums

102 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 6:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
6:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, ride through bars 45-51 and snare through bars 52-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-71, 73-75 and 85-87, and 5 more places -- 15.8% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x---x-x-----------|
Defiance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- AD, W -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-51 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Defiance?

120 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Defiance hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 6:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Defiance?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED