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Dissident · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 20 OF 39
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAIEPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dissident on drums

64 bars, 3:25, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 17, and 6 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 37-50 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dissident?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dissident hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Dissident?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED