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Drinking Problem · Midland

Drinking Problem · Midland
EXERCISE 24 OF 26
Play the whole song with the record
90 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 92 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDHLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drinking Problem on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-68, ride through bars 69-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-29 and 48-50, and 3 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 47 and 77.

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, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-48 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Drinking Problem?

102 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 Drinking Problem hard to play on drums?

48 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?

92 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 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 Drinking Problem?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 47 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED