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Isolation · Sepultura

EXERCISE 11 OF 76
Groove G
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COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART Y
PART Z
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIEVYS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isolation on drums

215 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-26, toms through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-38 and 40-42, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 20 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Isolation?

100 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 Isolation hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 8:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Isolation?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED