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Prog · Abyss-Made Bodies
EXERCISE 11 OF 81
Groove F
61 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G, OUTRO
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART T
PART AL
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
10 groovesITEALG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prog on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, toms through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-144, toms through bars 145-149 and hi-hat through bars 150-168, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55-56 and 59-60, and 5 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|
HH |------------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x--x--------------------x--x--|
Prog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 80 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prog?

150 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 Prog hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Prog?

20 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 80 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED