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Praise · Sevendust

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART D
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesLDBHQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Praise on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 69-71, and 7 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Praise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 44, 72, 76, 80, 84 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- L, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-102 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Praise?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Praise hard to play on drums?

40 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Praise?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 44, 72, 76, 80, 84 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED