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Intrusive Thots · Peelingflesh

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove AA -- Part AA
19 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART T
PART A
PART AA
BREAK 2
OUTRO
10 groovesDPKS10T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Intrusive Thots on drums

69 bars, 3:41, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and silence through bars 57-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 26, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Intrusive Thots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 52, 54 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-25 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-69 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Intrusive Thots?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Intrusive Thots hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Intrusive Thots?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 24, 52, 54 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED