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Drowning · Woodz

Drowning · Woodz
EXERCISE 19 OF 32
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
91 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBNS1S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drowning on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-62, snare through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-88, snare through bars 89-97 and silence through bars 98-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 45-59 -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Drowning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 63, 64, 72, 88, 96 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-97 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drowning?

111 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 Drowning hard to play on drums?

49 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?

112 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drowning?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 63, 64, 72, 88, 96 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED