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Drag Path (NEW) · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 9 OF 26
Groove G
47 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFNJCM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drag Path (NEW) on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-35, silence through bars 36-40 and ride through bars 41-58, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-26, 28-30 and 32, and 1 more place -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g-g-g-f-g-g-fggg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Drag Path (NEW) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 58, 66, 70 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-71 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drag Path (NEW)?

95 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 Drag Path (NEW) hard to play on drums?

61 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Drag Path (NEW)?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 50, 58, 66, 70 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED