Groan · Dazey and the Scouts

139 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 188 BPM
GROAN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 40, 45, 53 and 9 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 16 sections: 96 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-69.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
7 groovesFDJXT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Groan?

188 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 Groan hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Groan?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 31, 32, 40, 45, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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