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Prescription · Mindless Self Indulgence

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Groove D -- Part D
114 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prescription on drums

127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-26, 35-42 and 47-70, and 6 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Prescription -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 110.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-94 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Prescription?

165 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 Prescription hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Prescription?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED