ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guilty After All on drums

391 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 7:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 208 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 391
LENGTH: 7:50
DIFFICULTY: 56/100

toms through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-27, hi-hat through bars 28-37 and snare through bars 38-39, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 100, 103-105 and 107-109, and 11 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    103              104
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|x---------------|
RD |----------------|------------X-X-|
HH |--------x-x-o---|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|------------X-X-|
T1 |----------------|----x-----------|
T2 |----------------|------x---------|
FT |----------------|--------x-x-----|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x---------------|

Guilty After All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 31, 35, 38 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 98 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 1-23 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 21-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part J and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part T and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 19 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Guilty After All?

208 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 Guilty After All hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

391 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 27 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 Guilty After All?

19 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 31, 35, 38 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 391 BARS ANALYSED