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Dissect Yourself · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 3 OF 74
Groove I
19 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART H
PART J
PART X
PART G
PART X
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesARXJGH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dissect Yourself on drums

136 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30 and snare through bars 31-32, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38-40 and 42-43, and 3 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Dissect Yourself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dissect Yourself?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dissect Yourself hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Dissect Yourself?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 7, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED