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Gangrene · Kanine

EXERCISE 26 OF 44
Groove P
55 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFADIVM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gangrene on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-34, ride through bars 35-38 and snare through bars 39-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 66-79 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66                               67
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------xxxxx-x-x-x-|x-----x-----x-------xxx-xxx-xxx-|
Gangrene -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 26, 28, 30, 52 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-18 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gangrene?

90 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 Gangrene hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Gangrene?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 26, 28, 30, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED