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Heroin · Channel Zero

Heroin · Channel Zero
EXERCISE 30 OF 58
Groove S
69 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEHAHOAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heroin on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-48, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 57, and 4 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---|
Heroin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 32 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E, O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heroin?

128 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 Heroin hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Heroin?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED