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Doomscroll · Underpromise

Doomscroll · Underpromise
EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Groove F
68 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEQAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doomscroll on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
67/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24 and 70-85 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|x-x---x---x-----|
Doomscroll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doomscroll?

130 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 Doomscroll hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 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 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 Doomscroll?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED