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Human Systems · Brain Drain

EXERCISE 11 OF 42
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 22-24)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
PART P
PART K
8 groovesBKGOM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human Systems on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-48, ride through bars 49-58, hi-hat through bars 59-60, snare through bars 61-72 and toms through bars 73-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 1 more place -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-----o---------|
HF |----x-----x-x-x-|
Human Systems -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 23, 28, 33, 60, 97 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-42 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-69 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Human Systems?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Systems hard to play on drums?

52 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Human Systems?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 23, 28, 33, 60, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED