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Dirty Equation · Dirty Three

Dirty Equation · Dirty Three
EXERCISE 4 OF 77
Groove R -- Part R
91 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART D
PART AM
OUTRO
10 groovesCDRZAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Equation on drums

230 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 6:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-66, snare through bars 67-72, hi-hat through bars 73-102 and snare through bars 103-115, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 25-26 and 28, and 20 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x-------x---|
Dirty Equation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 35, 51, 55, 59, 63 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty Equation?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dirty Equation hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

230 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dirty Equation?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 35, 51, 55, 59, 63 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED