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Medium Unwell · Mad Caddies

EXERCISE 35 OF 39
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCPKS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Medium Unwell on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-27, snare through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-69, toms through bars 70-83, snare through bars 84-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 24.8% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Medium Unwell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 27, 31, 37, 41, 61 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-70 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-93 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Medium Unwell?

138 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 Medium Unwell hard to play on drums?

48 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?

106 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 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 Medium Unwell?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 27, 31, 37, 41, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED