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Inconsolable · holder

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 31-33)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEILBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inconsolable on drums

84 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-15, snare through bars 16-31, hi-hat through bars 32-52, snare through bars 53-56 and silence through bars 57-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 11 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x---|
Inconsolable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 31 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Inconsolable?

180 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 Inconsolable hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Inconsolable?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 31 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED