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Drop Out · Converge

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART S5
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAS8XHM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drop Out on drums

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:09 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-28, snare through bars 29-46, silence through bars 47-53 and toms through bars 54-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 1 more place -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x---x---------|--x---x---------|
SD |--x---x---x-xx--|--x---x---x-xxxx|
T2 |--------------xx|----------------|
FT |x---------------|x---------------|
BD |x---------------|x---------------|
Drop Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-34 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drop Out?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Out hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drop Out?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED