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Infected · Starset

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Run V1 · Part V (bars 60-66)
64 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGS1BN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Infected on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18, silence through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-34 and toms through bars 35-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 44-50 and 70, and 1 more place -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |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

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 40, 51, 55, 59 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-66 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-83 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Infected?

107 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 Infected hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Infected?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 40, 51, 55, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED