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face. · Static Dress

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHBALS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play face. on drums

148 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 2:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, snare through bars 42-46, toms through bars 47-49, snare through bars 50-54 and toms through bars 55-63, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 32, 36, 45 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-83 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is face.?

190 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 face. 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 face.?

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 32, 36, 45 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED