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Habitual Line-Stepper · Periphery

EXERCISE 13 OF 110
Groove H -- Part H
124 / 402 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
PART H
PART I
PART Z
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART BC
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAJBCAKBQB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Habitual Line-Stepper on drums

402 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 6:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
402
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-73, hi-hat through bars 74-88 and toms through bars 89-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-113 and 250-280 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    251
    1e+a2e+a3e
CC |x---------|
SD |x---------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-|
Habitual Line-Stepper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 71 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- AH, AJ -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-93 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-47 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Habitual Line-Stepper?

205 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 Habitual Line-Stepper hard to play on drums?

59 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

402 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Habitual Line-Stepper?

22 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 402 BARS ANALYSED