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Disease · Lady Gaga

EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Run G1 · Part G (bars 54-69)
65 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesCFJGB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disease on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-69, silence through bars 70-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-52 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Disease -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 61, 78 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-80 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Disease?

101 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 Disease hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Disease?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 61, 78 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED