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Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy · Nails

EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 52-54)
64 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesLOHES+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy on drums

81 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22-24 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 27, 29 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-26 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-49 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-49 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-61 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy?

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

Is Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lacking the Ability to Process Empathy?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 25, 27, 29 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED