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GRUDGES · Melanie Martinez

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART S3
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART U
PART S13
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesLDGS3U+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GRUDGES on drums

144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, silence through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-72 and snare through bars 73-78, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 4 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                                               34
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------x-------x---|------------------------x-------------------x---|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------x---------------|x-------x-----------x---------------------------|
GRUDGES -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 91, 92 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-49 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is GRUDGES?

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

Is GRUDGES 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 GRUDGES?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 91, 92 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED