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Failed Breed · Signs Of The Swarm

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove AD -- Outro 2
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PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART AD
PART E
PART AM
PART N
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGAHADNB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Failed Breed on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-51, snare through bars 52-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-66, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94, 96 and 151-164 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    151
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Failed Breed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 51, 55 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Failed Breed?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Failed Breed hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Failed Breed?

17 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 33, 51, 55 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED