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Depress · Eyehategod

EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART L
PART Q
PART S
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAFAAQLE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Depress on drums

127 bars, 7:43, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-19, hi-hat through bars 20-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-102, 105-119 and 121-123, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    90
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Depress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 21, 29, 37 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AF, Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-13 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 3-18 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-30 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-49 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Depress?

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

Is Depress hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Depress?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 21, 29, 37 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED