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Listless · On Broken Wings

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART Q
PART D
PART G
PART L
PART N
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesS11QGNL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Listless on drums

117 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-27, hi-hat through bars 28-34, snare through bars 35-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-55, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-66, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-------------|
Listless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 66, 67, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-37 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-20 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Listless?

190 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 Listless hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Listless?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 66, 67, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED