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Out Of Touch · Death

EXERCISE 7 OF 63
Groove B -- Part B
50 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART R
PART AA
CHORUS
PART M
BREAK
8 groovesAHBRAAM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Out Of Touch on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26-27 and 30-31, and 5 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--x---xx--|
Out Of Touch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M, N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Out Of Touch?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Out Of Touch 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Out Of Touch?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED