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Patience Testing · Caiden

EXERCISE 2 OF 58
5-bar fill at bar 13
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PART I
CHORUS
PART S7
PART AX
PART S12
PART BE
PART U
OUTRO
19 groovesS5FAXIU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Patience Testing on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, toms through bars 34-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-47 and toms through bars 48-51, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 -- 2.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x-----------------x-|
HH |----------------o--o---oo-------|
SD |----x-------x---gxxx----g---g---|
T1 |-----------------------------x--|
FT |---------------------gg---xxxg--|
BD |--x-----------x-----g--x-x----x-|
Patience Testing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S7 and the Break 4 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part AX -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and Part AX -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Patience Testing?

144 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 Patience Testing hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 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 Patience Testing?

12 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED