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Kick The Tragedy · Drop Nineteens

Kick The Tragedy · Drop Nineteens
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kick The Tragedy on drums

228 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 8:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-228.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 32 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xg---x--x---|
BD |x-xx--xx--xx----|
Kick The Tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kick The Tragedy?

103 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 Kick The Tragedy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 8:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 5 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED