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Down With The Sickness · Disturbed

EXERCISE 31 OF 55
Run H2 · Part H (bars 55-62)
74 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART C
VERSE
PART H
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
9 groovesJFHMA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down With The Sickness on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-44, toms through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44 and 63-70 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---xx--x---|
BD |x--x-xx---x--xx-|
Down With The Sickness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-59 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-72 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down With The Sickness?

90 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 With The Sickness hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Down With The Sickness?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED