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Manipulating The Inevitable · Alternative Competition 3

EXERCISE 33 OF 33
Play the whole song with the record
70 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQCFKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manipulating The Inevitable on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, silence through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Manipulating The Inevitable -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Manipulating The Inevitable?

80 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 Manipulating The Inevitable hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Manipulating The Inevitable?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED