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Dysphoria · Cloudkicker

Dysphoria · Cloudkicker
EXERCISE 20 OF 51
Chorus into Part G with the record (bars 30-37)
124 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART AB
OUTRO
7 groovesAABLGS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dysphoria on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-153, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 12 more places -- 19% 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---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x---xxx---x-|--x---x---xxx---|
Dysphoria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, AB -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF (a two-bar phrase) -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-53 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-79 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dysphoria?

150 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 Dysphoria 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Dysphoria?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED