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Envy · Calm, Jeremiah Ruff, Jay Vilardi, Kerry DeWitt, Corey Floyd, Christopher Tolan, Jeremiah Ruff, Jay Vilardi, Kerry DeWitt, Corey Floyd, Christopher Tolan

Envy · Calm, Jeremiah Ruff, Jay Vilardi, Kerry DeWitt, Corey Floyd, Christopher Tolan, Jeremiah Ruff, Jay Vilardi, Kerry DeWitt, Corey Floyd, Christopher Tolan
EXERCISE 10 OF 59
Fill at bar 5 (a small one)
49 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART U
PART V
OUTRO
11 groovesELBOU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Envy on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, 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
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-37 and ride through bars 38-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-17 and 30-32, and 4 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x---x---x-----x---|
Envy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 18, 19, 20 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-30 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-54 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Envy?

117 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 Envy 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Envy?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 18, 19, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED