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Gel · Collective Soul

EXERCISE 18 OF 37
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 64-66)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJQAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gel on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-72 and ride through bars 73-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Gel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 60, 68 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 62-82 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-98 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gel?

133 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 Gel hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Gel?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 60, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED