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Doppelganger (BTR) · Kessoku Band

EXERCISE 7 OF 110
Groove H
37 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFJAAHK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doppelganger (BTR) on drums

168 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-112, toms through bars 113-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-122, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 11 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 23 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-76 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doppelganger (BTR)?

189 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Doppelganger (BTR) hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Doppelganger (BTR)?

24 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 23 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED