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Lack Of Comprehension · Death

EXERCISE 7 OF 82
Groove B -- Part B
51 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART Q
PART AB
PART AF
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
12 groovesAIABATBAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lack Of Comprehension on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
87/100

ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-69, ride through bars 70-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-97, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-68, 78-80 and 82-84, and 2 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    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-|
Lack Of Comprehension -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 41, 43 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lack Of Comprehension?

105 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 Lack Of Comprehension hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 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 Lack Of Comprehension?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 41, 43 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED