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Ebola · Providence

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBFRM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ebola on drums

82 bars at 219 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
219 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, snare through bars 42-50, silence through bars 51-77 and snare through bars 78-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Ebola -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 24, 25, 33, 37, 49 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-45 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-63 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ebola?

219 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 Ebola hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ebola?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 24, 25, 33, 37, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED