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Eighties · Killing Joke

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHMS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eighties on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, toms through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-80 and toms through bars 81-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-28 and 30-34, and 30 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
Eighties -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 36, 60, 68, 104 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-61 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-101 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eighties?

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 Eighties hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Eighties?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 36, 60, 68, 104 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED