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DRAG ME UNDER · Blessthefall

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART K
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBKULAJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DRAG ME UNDER on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, 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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 3-64, toms through bars 65-66, snare through bars 67-83, kick and crashes through bars 84-85, silence through bars 86-92 and snare through bars 93-95, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 8-9 and 11, and 7 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
DRAG ME UNDER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 10, 28, 29, 34, 38 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-30 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DRAG ME UNDER?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 DRAG ME UNDER hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DRAG ME UNDER?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 10, 28, 29, 34, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED