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Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI) · Suicidal tendencies

EXERCISE 3 OF 83
Groove AF -- Chorus
52 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART S
PART X
CHORUS
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AY
OUTRO
13 groovesAFKQXAY+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI) on drums

178 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-16, silence through bars 17-19 and snare through bars 20-22, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 36, and 27 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- Q, R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-58 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI)?

170 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 Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Possessed To Skate (2010) (AI)?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED