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Existence Is Punishment v2 · Crowbar

EXERCISE 18 OF 51
Groove N
45 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART R, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART R
PART J
PART R
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesBJRID+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Existence Is Punishment v2 on drums

81 bars, 4:33, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x---------------xx---x-----x--|
Existence Is Punishment v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 32 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Existence Is Punishment v2?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Existence Is Punishment v2 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Existence Is Punishment v2?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED