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Extremist · AA Le Composer

EXERCISE 11 OF 41
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-12)
48 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesKBNEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Extremist on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41 and toms through bars 42-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 27, and 9 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---x-o-x-o-|
SD |x-------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Extremist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 17, 49, 50, 51, 54 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Extremist?

150 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 Extremist hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Extremist?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 17, 49, 50, 51, 54 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED