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Disguise · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Groove C -- Part C
40 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBCULR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disguise on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-24, silence through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Disguise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 34, 50, 54, 70, 74 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-51 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-63 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-67 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-80 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disguise?

105 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 Disguise hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Disguise?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 30, 34, 50, 54, 70, 74 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED