ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Denied on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 174
LENGTH: 5:24
DIFFICULTY: 91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and ride through bars 54-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40, 66-73 and 147-154 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                                               34
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----|------------x-----x-----------------------------|
HH |o-----o-----------------o-----o-----------------|o-----o-----------------o-----------o-----------|
SD |---x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x-----|---x--------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--------------x-----x--x--------------|x-----x--x--------------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

Denied -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 114, 133, 134, 138 and 163.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
and 15 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Denied?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Denied hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Denied?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 114, 133, 134, 138 and 163.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED