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Poverty of Self · Currents

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Groove D -- Part D
76 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART F
PART N
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesTFNZJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poverty of Self on drums

192 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-43 and snare through bars 44-58, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-26, 65-78 and 95 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x---|
Poverty of Self -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 60, 63, 64 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Poverty of Self?

230 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 Poverty of Self hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Poverty of Self?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 60, 63, 64 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED