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Direct Word · Daita

Direct Word · Daita
EXERCISE 5 OF 66
Groove J -- Part J
50 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 5
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAJWHAM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Direct Word on drums

201 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-131, kick and crashes through bars 132-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-201.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-17 and 54-58, and 6 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-86 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-75 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-95 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part W -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Direct Word?

172 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 Direct Word hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Direct Word?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED