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Equalize · Pitty

EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 70-72)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFDIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Equalize on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-39, hi-hat through bars 40-63, ride through bars 64-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-23 and 40-54 -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Equalize -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 37, 63, 71, 80, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-59 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-38 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-73 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Equalize?

90 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 Equalize hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Equalize?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 37, 63, 71, 80, 81 and 2 more.

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