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DISSENSION · Nemophila

EXERCISE 22 OF 64
3-bar fill at bar 41 and 1 more
118 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART F
PART P
PART F
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART C
10 groovesBFPCI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DISSENSION on drums

180 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 2-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-55, snare through bars 56-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-87, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 25 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxx-----x---x-|
DISSENSION -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 27, 31, 35, 39, 41 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-61 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-88 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DISSENSION?

180 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 DISSENSION hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 DISSENSION?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 27, 31, 35, 39, 41 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED