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Patient Number 9 E standard · OZZY OSBOURNE

EXERCISE 4 OF 60
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
PART Q
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEIDQZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Patient Number 9 E standard on drums

218 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-56, snare through bars 57-63, hi-hat through bars 64-112, snare through bars 113-127 and silence through bars 128-130, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 36-37 and 39-44, and 30 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Patient Number 9 E standard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 102, 110, 118, 126, 130 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 21-55 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 73-125 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-119 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 125-152 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 149-179 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Patient Number 9 E standard?

170 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 Patient Number 9 E standard hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Patient Number 9 E standard?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 54, 102, 110, 118, 126, 130 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED