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Human Sandbags · Deeds Of Flesh

EXERCISE 13 OF 73
Join Part L to Part N (bars 18-20)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART N
PART L
PART N
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGPLBCT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human Sandbags on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
93/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-137 and ride through bars 138-139, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65, and 18 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Human Sandbags?

125 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 Human Sandbags hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Human Sandbags?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED