ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Entropic Conformity on drums

136 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 200 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 136
LENGTH: 3:23
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-83 and snare through bars 84-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60-67 and 93-100 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60                                               61
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x---x-------|x-----------x-----------x---------------x-------|
RD |--------------------------------x---------------|--------------------x---------------------------|
HH |--------o---------------------------------------|--------o---------------------------------------|
SD |x-----------x-----------------------x-------x---|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-------x---|
FT |------------------------------------------------|--------------------------x-x-x-x-x-------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-------x---|x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-------------x-------x---|

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 18, 19, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 1-13 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Entropic Conformity?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Entropic Conformity hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Entropic Conformity?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 18, 19, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED