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EXERCISE 12 OF 55
Run S31 · Part S3 (bars 19-24)
31 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
CHORUS
PART S3
PART T
PART AA
PART S7
PART AJ
PART AO
PART BC
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAOCAAAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Defense Of Our Good Name on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
87/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 87-89 -- 6.5% 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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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |----------------x-x-----------------------------x-x-------------|
T2 |------------------------x-x-----------------------------x-x-----|
FT |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-|
In Defense Of Our Good Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part S3 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 23-33 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Defense Of Our Good Name?

84 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 In Defense Of Our Good Name hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 In Defense Of Our Good Name?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED