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Discipline · King Crimson

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesYS10EJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Discipline on drums

98 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-81 and silence through bars 82-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57, 59 and 63-67, and 1 more place -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63                   64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
SD |x-xxxxx-xx-xxxx-xxx-|x-xxxxx-x-x-xx-xx-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |----x-------x-------|x-------x-------x---|
Discipline -- 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 35 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 -- Y, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Discipline?

107 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Discipline hard to play on drums?

48 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED