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Letter Experiment · Periphery

EXERCISE 5 OF 86
Groove AC -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART G
CHORUS
PART AN
PART BI
PART AB
PART BT
PART AN
PART CH
OUTRO 2
13 groovesACCHGANBI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Letter Experiment on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-44, toms through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-85, hi-hat through bars 86-89 and toms through bars 90-95, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 61-62, and 9 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------g-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
Letter Experiment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CH -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Letter Experiment?

138 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 Letter Experiment hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 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 Letter Experiment?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED