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Intro · Peelingflesh

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
4-bar fill at bar 25
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0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAS1NEJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Intro on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-37, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31 and 33-35 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----------------------------------|
Intro -- 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 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- J, P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 19-32 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Intro?

150 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 Intro hard to play on drums?

56 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Intro?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED