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Disco · Surf Curse

EXERCISE 3 OF 16
Groove C
66 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disco on drums

105 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 2-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-34, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-17 and 19, and 8 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Disco -- 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 15 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-105 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Disco?

173 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 Disco hard to play on drums?

51 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED