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Erase Me · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 17 OF 45
2-bar fill at bar 5
34 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS8RADV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Erase Me on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42 and snare through bars 43-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-x-|
Erase Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-52 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Erase Me?

94 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 Erase Me hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Erase Me?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED