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Problems · Mother Mother

EXERCISE 28 OF 32
Join Part K to Break (bars 87-89)
85 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, BREAK
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART K
BREAK
6 groovesCMKS1S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Problems on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-12, and 9 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 43, 44, 45, 54, 55 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Problems?

104 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 Problems hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Problems?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 43, 44, 45, 54, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED