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Ethical Chemical · Anatidae

Ethical Chemical · Anatidae
EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Join Part D to Part F (bars 47-49)
112 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesADFIS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ethical Chemical on drums

178 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, snare through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-41 and snare through bars 42-43, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 8-10 and 15-17, and 5 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |ox--o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----------x---|
BD |x-------------------|
Ethical Chemical -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 10 times: bars 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-66 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ethical Chemical?

200 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ethical Chemical hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ethical Chemical?

1 fill to learn, played 10 times: bars 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED