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Land Of Confusion · Genesis

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
133 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 134 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Land Of Confusion on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-20, and 23 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x-xx-x-xx-x--|
Land Of Confusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 37, 41, 49 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-101 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Land Of Confusion?

118 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 Land Of Confusion hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Land Of Confusion?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 37, 41, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED