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Numbness · Dolorent

Numbness · Dolorent
EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Groove F
89 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H
PART A
PART B
PART S3
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLS3AKB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Numbness on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 82-129 -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    82
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Numbness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 65.

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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-46 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Numbness?

150 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 Numbness hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Numbness?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED