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Product of My Environment · Jarhead Fertilizer

Product of My Environment · Jarhead Fertilizer
EXERCISE 4 OF 82
Groove I -- Chorus
37 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AG
PART AH
PART AC
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIACABRAH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Product of My Environment on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, snare through bars 42-46 and toms through bars 47-50, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-87, 121 and 124-137 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Product of My Environment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Product of My Environment?

145 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 Product of My Environment hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Product of My Environment?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED