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Diarrhero · Gutalax

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Groove E
43 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diarrhero on drums

61 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-21 and 23-29, and 3 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Diarrhero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 42, 46, 51, 52, 57 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Diarrhero?

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

Is Diarrhero hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Diarrhero?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 42, 46, 51, 52, 57 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED