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In Spite Of · XweaponX

In Spite Of · XweaponX
EXERCISE 7 OF 39
Groove F -- Part F
24 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesLAFPS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Spite Of on drums

65 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-35, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 41-43 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
In Spite Of -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-43 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-65 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Spite Of?

165 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 In Spite Of hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In Spite Of?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 24, 28 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED