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Like Suicide · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
BREAK
7 groovesAS6LFS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Suicide on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-48, toms through bars 49-74, ride through bars 75-82, toms through bars 83-84 and ride through bars 85-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-15 and 17-20, and 7 more places -- 45.5% 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
SD |------x-----x---|
FT |x-g-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x--xx-----x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Like Suicide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 72, 84, 86, 87 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-157 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Like Suicide?

96 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 Like Suicide hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Like Suicide?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 24, 72, 84, 86, 87 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED