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Disappearing Syndrome · HtS

EXERCISE 9 OF 99
Groove J -- Part J
72 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J, CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART V
CHORUS
PART AL
PART U
PART AY
PART BC
19 groovesAFALADVW+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disappearing Syndrome on drums

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 6:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39 and ride through bars 40-50, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 82-88, 90-97 and 215-222, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82                                   83
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------------|------------------------------------|
Disappearing Syndrome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 21, 22, 24 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- AF, U -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disappearing Syndrome?

135 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 Disappearing Syndrome hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 Disappearing Syndrome?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 21, 22, 24 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED