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Greed · Pennywise

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 36 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECLAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Greed on drums

117 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 30.8% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
Greed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 44, 48 and 6 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-85 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Greed?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Greed hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 44, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED