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Eraser · Hypocrisy

EXERCISE 23 OF 34
Groove K -- Part K
83 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCHEAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eraser on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-61 and snare through bars 62-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49, 71-78 and 95-110 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Eraser -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 32, 53, 61 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-28 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-70 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eraser?

100 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 Eraser hard to play on drums?

60 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Eraser?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 32, 53, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED