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elephant in the room · 6lack

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 12 PASSED · 169 BARS LIT
PART A
BREAK
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAS2S5S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play elephant in the room on drums

169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
19/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, silence through bars 73-88, hi-hat through bars 89-136 and silence through bars 137-158, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-20 and 41-45, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
elephant in the room -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-169 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is elephant in the room?

180 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 elephant in the room hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:25 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?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED