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Drugs · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 30 OF 46
Join Break 4 to Chorus 4 (bars 117-119)
101 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 4, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesCS3FS5Q+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drugs on drums

158 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-44, ride through bars 45-46 and snare through bars 47-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 49-51, and 20 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-46 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-107 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-96 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-116 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-131 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 130-158 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drugs?

165 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 Drugs hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Drugs?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED