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Down · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 23 OF 33
Join Part L to Chorus 4 (bars 75-77)
110 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 4
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDALSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, ride through bars 65-74, toms through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 33-35, and 12 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 48, 56, 64 and 7 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 -- D, A -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-33 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-77 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Down?

136 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 Down hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Down?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 48, 56, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED