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Prisoner · 311

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove C -- Part C
41 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFECG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prisoner on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 29-32 and 37-38, and 2 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 26, 27 and 28.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 4-18 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-40 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Prisoner?

84 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 Prisoner hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 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 Prisoner?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 26, 27 and 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED