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EXERCISE 28 OF 56
Join Break to Part X (bars 49-51)
69 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART X
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOAAAXH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Disease on drums

109 bars, 6:04, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, snare through bars 39-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 39-41 and 43-46, and 3 more places -- 23.6% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xx---x--x-xx|
BD |x--x---xx--x-x--|
My Disease -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-59 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part X and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Disease?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is My Disease hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 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 My Disease?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED