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Humanity · Scorpions

EXERCISE 23 OF 49
Join Chorus 2 to Part K (bars 52-54)
65 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCFS1KB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Humanity on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, toms through bars 46-53 and ride through bars 54-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 46-52 and 84-90 -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------x---------------|
FT |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------------------x---x-------xxxx--------x-------|
Humanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 53, 61, 67, 73, 91 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-39 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-49 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-58 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Humanity?

90 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 Humanity hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Humanity?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 53, 61, 67, 73, 91 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED