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Improper Use of a Speculum · Party Cannon

EXERCISE 18 OF 105
Fill at bar 51 (a small one)
85 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
PART D
PART I
PART AE
CHORUS
OUTRO
15 groovesAZNANDAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Improper Use of a Speculum on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
86/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31 and snare through bars 32-39, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 90-92 and 98-105, and 1 more place -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Improper Use of a Speculum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-168 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-50 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-52 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Improper Use of a Speculum?

135 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 Improper Use of a Speculum hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Improper Use of a Speculum?

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED