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Propaganda · Sepultura

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART D
PART F
PART L
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesIFLTD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Propaganda on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and snare through bars 45-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 45-47 and 65-67, and 13 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Propaganda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-19 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-68 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Propaganda?

102 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 Propaganda hard to play on drums?

55 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 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 Propaganda?

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED