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Elitist Ones · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 19 OF 96
Groove S -- Part S
83 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART S
PART AG
OUTRO 2
13 groovesASMABAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elitist Ones on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28 and snare through bars 29-50, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 18 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |g-------g-------g-------g-------|
SD |----------------g---------------|
BD |g-------g-----------g-----------|
Elitist Ones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-120 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elitist Ones?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Elitist Ones hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Elitist Ones?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED