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Inadequate · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 4 OF 69
Fill at bar 26 (a small one)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMCS1AJAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inadequate on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-35, toms through bars 36-49, hi-hat through bars 50-55, snare through bars 56-70 and toms through bars 71-78, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 43, and 3 more places -- 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.

    21
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|
Inadequate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inadequate?

120 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 Inadequate hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Inadequate?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED