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Defying the Rules · Hibria

EXERCISE 10 OF 90
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
119 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFMIAKA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Defying the Rules on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27, and 23 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Defying the Rules -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 5-24 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-105 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Defying the Rules?

150 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 Defying the Rules hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 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 Defying the Rules?

25 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED