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Indiscipline · King Crimson

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Groove O
39 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART P
PART A
PART P
PART S3
CHORUS
PART S5
PART BB
PART AC
OUTRO
9 groovesAHPAACS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indiscipline on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-42, toms through bars 43-44, silence through bars 45-61, ride through bars 62-71 and toms through bars 72-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21 and 24, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |x---g---x---x---g---x---x---x---x---g---x---x---|
BD |x-------------------x---------------------------|
HF |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
Indiscipline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Indiscipline?

122 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 Indiscipline hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Indiscipline?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED