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President X · 3teeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesFBS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play President X on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43 and snare through bars 44-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 8 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|--x---xxx-x---x-|
President X -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 11, 23 and 43.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is President X?

101 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 President X hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 President X?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 11, 23 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED