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Mad Qualia · Hyde

Mad Qualia · Hyde
EXERCISE 14 OF 90
Groove D
63 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART I
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNAFIFBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mad Qualia on drums

169 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-60 and toms through bars 61-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 29 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- N, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mad Qualia?

195 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 Mad Qualia hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 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 Mad Qualia?

23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 29 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED