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Drink · Destroy Boys

EXERCISE 22 OF 40
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 37-39)
85 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART C
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKHCSE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drink on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 63-69 and 71-73, and 2 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x-x-------|
Drink -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-32 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-55 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drink?

140 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 Drink hard to play on drums?

63 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Drink?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED