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Evil · Interpol

EXERCISE 19 OF 35
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 35-37)
91 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBDMJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, silence through bars 30-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-59 and silence through bars 60-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-20 and 39-50 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |------x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x---x---|
Evil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 58, 62, 66 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-111 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil?

128 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 Evil hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Evil?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 58, 62, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED