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DEMO SONG 2 · Adoration

DEMO SONG 2 · Adoration
EXERCISE 8 OF 48
Groove Q -- Chorus
28 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQJES6W+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DEMO SONG 2 on drums

81 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, snare through bars 44-66, silence through bars 67-73 and snare through bars 74-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
DEMO SONG 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 11, 19, 28, 32 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DEMO SONG 2?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is DEMO SONG 2 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DEMO SONG 2?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 11, 19, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED