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Discontent With Your State of Being · Show Mercy

EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G
48 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART G
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLQCBO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Discontent With Your State of Being on drums

77 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, toms through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-51, silence through bars 52-55 and snare through bars 56-61, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-68 and 73-76 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
T1 |-------------x--|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Discontent With Your State of Being -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 41, 58, 70 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- Q, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-26 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-52 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Discontent With Your State of Being?

159 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 Discontent With Your State of Being hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Discontent With Your State of Being?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 41, 58, 70 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED