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Envy · Jerome

Envy · Jerome
EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove D
43 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART J
PART N
PART W
PART AA
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAFJNAAAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Envy on drums

127 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 3-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, snare through bars 28-65, hi-hat through bars 66-77, snare through bars 78-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20 and 22-32 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----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

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 45, 51, 96, 100, 104 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-60 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-112 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Envy?

220 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 Envy hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 45, 51, 96, 100, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED