ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Medicate Me on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 75
LENGTH: 2:44
DIFFICULTY: 63/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                               16
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-------------|x-x-----------x-----x-----------|

Medicate Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part F and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 37-60 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Medicate Me?

110 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 Medicate Me hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Medicate Me?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED