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Dirt · Phish

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART J
PART F
PART M
PART M
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesBMJFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirt on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-106 and snare through bars 107-108, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 55-56 and 59, and 13 more places -- 18.8% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Dirt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-134 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-92 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-119 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 125-144 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirt?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dirt hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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