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Denial · Sevendust

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Join Part B to Part E (bars 18-20)
62 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEABXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Denial on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, snare through bars 50-62, hi-hat through bars 63-79 and toms through bars 80-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-32, 34 and 48-52, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x-x-x|
Denial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 33, 35, 37, 47, 53 and 12 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-34 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-64 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Denial?

105 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 Denial hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Denial?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 33, 35, 37, 47, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED