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Disease (The Test) · Alternative Competition 5

EXERCISE 12 OF 23
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 19-21)
36 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesFS4IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disease (The Test) on drums

46 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 2:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 14-16 and 34-38, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-----x-x-x-----|
HF |x-----------------------|
Disease (The Test) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-37 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Disease (The Test)?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 (The Test) 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 (The Test)?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED