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Dissipate · SEEKING SAMSARA

Dissipate · SEEKING SAMSARA
EXERCISE 7 OF 51
Groove B -- Part B
36 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFNSEAQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dissipate on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-46, ride through bars 47-62 and snare through bars 63-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-------x-x-x-|
Dissipate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 28, 35, 42, 44, 57 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 14-46 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dissipate?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dissipate hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 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 Dissipate?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 28, 35, 42, 44, 57 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED