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Dominant Predation · Get the Shot

EXERCISE 29 OF 89
Run S1 · Part S (bars 62-66)
107 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART C
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AW
20 groovesRCJAWU+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dominant Predation on drums

179 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-67, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 38-45 and 100, and 6 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Dominant Predation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- K, S -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-101 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-75 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dominant Predation?

186 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 Dominant Predation hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dominant Predation?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED