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Greed · Godsmack

EXERCISE 7 OF 28
Groove H
57 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Greed on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-36, toms through bars 37-51, hi-hat through bars 52-68 and toms through bars 69-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
T1 |---------x-x----|
BD |x--------x-x-xx-|
Greed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 27, 28, 35, 36, 44 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-39 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Greed?

103 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 Greed hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Greed?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 27, 28, 35, 36, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED