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Drown In Sorrow · Denied

EXERCISE 10 OF 27
Groove G -- Part G
70 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGUS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drown In Sorrow on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34 and snare through bars 35-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 13-14, and 23 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---xx--x-----|
Drown In Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 11 more.

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 -- C, U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drown In Sorrow?

115 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 Drown In Sorrow hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Drown In Sorrow?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED