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Disappointed · Last Train
EXERCISE 31 OF 45
Groove Q
76 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART P
PART T
7 groovesCPTFS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disappointed on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 17-24 and 35-41 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xo|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx----x|x-x----x-xx--x--|
Disappointed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 29, 32, 33, 34 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-47 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-58 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disappointed?

82 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 Disappointed hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Disappointed?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 29, 32, 33, 34 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED