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doom · Steve Lacy

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove D -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 6 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play doom on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-72 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
doom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is doom?

93 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 doom hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED