ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emotion Sickness on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 122 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 131
LENGTH: 4:18
DIFFICULTY: 52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-27, snare through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-45, toms through bars 46-49, ride through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-57, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-21, and 6 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |----o-------o---|----o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-----|
FT |----------------|------------x---|
BD |------x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
HF |------x-------x-|------x---------|

Emotion Sickness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 43, 57, 58 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F, R -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part F and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Emotion Sickness?

122 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 Emotion Sickness hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Emotion Sickness?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 27, 28, 37, 43, 57, 58 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED