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Incinerate · Sonic Youth

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove D -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART AD
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Incinerate on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, toms through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-53, toms through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7-8 and 21-34, and 6 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|x-------x-x---x-|
Incinerate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 12, 18, 43, 45, 47 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-19 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Incinerate?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Incinerate hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Incinerate?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 12, 18, 43, 45, 47 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED