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Drop D · GOMEY

Drop D · GOMEY
EXERCISE 7 OF 18
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drop D on drums

122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66 and ride through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48, 75-90 and 99-122 -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|
Drop D -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-99 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drop D?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drop D 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Drop D?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED