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EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Join Part H to Outro (bars 49-51)
68 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesANHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Primal Concrete Sledge on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
94/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-46, toms through bars 47-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
T1 |------x-----------------x-----------------x--x--|------x-----------------x-----------------------|
T2 |---------------x-----------------x--------------|---------------x-----------------x--------x--x--|
FT |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Primal Concrete Sledge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 29, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-51 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Primal Concrete Sledge?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Primal Concrete Sledge hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Primal Concrete Sledge?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 29, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED