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Deuce · KISS

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove D -- Part D
43 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFNDGK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deuce on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
81/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-40, snare through bars 41-47, hi-hat through bars 48-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 24, and 2 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Deuce -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 26, 28, 30, 39, 43 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-56 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deuce?

123 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 Deuce hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Deuce?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 26, 28, 30, 39, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED