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Invidious · Ingested

EXERCISE 29 OF 84
Join Part K to Chorus (bars 41-43)
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0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS
PART A
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART AT
CHORUS 2
PART AR
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTAARKD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Invidious on drums

160 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46, ride through bars 47-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 9 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 18, 28, 30, 35, 42 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- A, T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-36 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Invidious?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Invidious hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 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 Invidious?

19 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 18, 28, 30, 35, 42 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED