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DULL · Turnstile

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Intro (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
BREAK
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3FS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DULL on drums

72 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-54, silence through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|----x-x---x-x---|
DULL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-72 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DULL?

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 DULL hard to play on drums?

33 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in DULL?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.

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