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Distress · Mad Caddies

EXERCISE 30 OF 45
Groove S -- Part S
100 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
5 groovesGMCJSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Distress on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 20-22, and 11 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Distress -- 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 9, 27, 28, 47, 49, 67 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- G, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-47 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-92 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Distress?

134 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 Distress hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Distress?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 27, 28, 47, 49, 67 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED