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Grounded · Pavement

EXERCISE 10 OF 50
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 9-11)
86 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART S12
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFKGS12C+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grounded on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-56, ride through bars 57-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 13 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--|
BD |x-----x-----------------|
Grounded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 40, 60, 63, 64, 67, 68 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-54 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 76-105 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-121 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Grounded?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Grounded hard to play on drums?

46 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Grounded?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 40, 60, 63, 64, 67, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED