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Degausser · Brand New

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Groove C
39 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Degausser on drums

67 bars, 3:43, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52 and snare through bars 53-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 19-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--------xx-----|
Degausser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Degausser?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Degausser hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Degausser?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED