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Disassociate · Jutes

EXERCISE 25 OF 45
Groove M
105 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART J
PART L
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesTLJCA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disassociate on drums

156 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-63 and snare through bars 64-67, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109-111, 113-115 and 117-119, and 9 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    117
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xx-xx---xx-xx-|
Disassociate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 39, 43, 59 and 16 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 -- T, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-18 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-43 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-51 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 52-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-113 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disassociate?

165 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 Disassociate hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Disassociate?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 39, 43, 59 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED