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Post-Boredom (Instrumental) · Every Time I Die

EXERCISE 24 OF 69
Groove P
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesINLACH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Post-Boredom (Instrumental) on drums

137 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-21 and 23, and 13 more places -- 27.9% 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---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Post-Boredom (Instrumental) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-52 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Post-Boredom (Instrumental)?

175 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 Post-Boredom (Instrumental) hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Post-Boredom (Instrumental)?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED