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Note to Self - Corrected · From First To Last

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EXERCISE 4 OF 70
16-bar fill at bar 1
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0 / 70 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
PART I
PART O
PART S
PART X
CHORUS
PART I
PART H
OUTRO
9 groovesAEIHSO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Note to Self - Corrected on drums

139 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-46, snare through bars 47-48, ride through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-54, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 73-75, 81-83 and 85, and 2 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73                               74
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
T2 |--------------------------------|----------------------------xx--|
FT |--------------------------------|-------------------------------x|
BD |x---x-------x---x-----------x---|----x-----------x---x-----------|
Note to Self - Corrected -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AE, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Note to Self - Corrected?

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

Is Note to Self - Corrected 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Note to Self - Corrected?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED