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I Am The State · Havok

EXERCISE 21 OF 62
Chorus into Part J with the record (bars 33-40)
164 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAAJNR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The State on drums

220 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-84 and ride through bars 85-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 17 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
I Am The State -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 43, 44, 52 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-24 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-56 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am The State?

215 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 I Am The State hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 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 I Am The State?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 43, 44, 52 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED