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Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES) · Diagnosis

EXERCISE 28 OF 123
Fill at bar 74, 272 and 296 (a small one)
227 / 357 BARS COVERED
0 / 123 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, CHORUS 6, CHORUS 7
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART AG
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
16 groovesDJAGFX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES) on drums

357 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 11:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
357
LENGTH
11:37
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-84, ride through bars 85-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-101, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 24-30 and 32-39, and 18 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 31, 40, 41 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-50 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-67 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-96 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 99-116 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES)?

123 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 Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

357 bars, about 11:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Degeneracy (FULL EP, NO SAMPLES)?

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 31, 40, 41 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 357 BARS ANALYSED