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Dress Like A Target · Superjoint Ritual

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Groove C -- Part C
64 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEMGSU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dress Like A Target on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and toms through bars 42-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-21 and 44, and 5 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Dress Like A Target -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-58 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-14 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-35 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-42 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dress Like A Target?

150 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 Dress Like A Target hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dress Like A Target?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED