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Greed · TvL

Greed · TvL
EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBGOMR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Greed on drums

177 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27 and snare through bars 28-29, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-17, and 20 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 28 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-59 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-47 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Greed?

200 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?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Greed?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED