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No title · Decapitated Elephant

No title · Decapitated Elephant
EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Groove K (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART M
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesFMGES11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No title on drums

133 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, snare through bars 13-14, ride through bars 15-21, snare through bars 22-23 and ride through bars 24-30, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 16, and 17 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---xx--|
No title -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 5, 52, 53, 54, 56 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-15 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-48 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-129 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No title?

222 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is No title hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 No title?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 5, 52, 53, 54, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED