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My Disaster · Seether

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
PART O
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJOPH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Disaster on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, silence through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 12 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x---x-----x-x---|
My Disaster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 36, 44, 48 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- O, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Disaster?

78 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 My Disaster hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 My Disaster?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 36, 44, 48 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED