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Infected · Antim Grahan

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-32)
173 / 253 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesDNJAS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Infected on drums

253 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-113, silence through bars 114-116, hi-hat through bars 117-178 and silence through bars 179-185, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 187-252 -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    187
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
Infected -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-113 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Infected?

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 Infected hard to play on drums?

55 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Infected?

2 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 47, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED