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For The Damaged Coda · Blonde Redhead

For The Damaged Coda · Blonde Redhead
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS1BJCIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For The Damaged Coda on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-50 and ride through bars 51-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 2 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---o---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
For The Damaged Coda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 49 and 50.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, J, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-58 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is For The Damaged Coda?

141 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 For The Damaged Coda hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 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 For The Damaged Coda?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 49 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED