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Protegee · Staple R

Protegee · Staple R
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove M -- Chorus
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesMIFGK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Protegee on drums

185 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32, snare through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-55, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 50-51, and 13 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Protegee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-41 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Protegee?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Protegee hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Protegee?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 24 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED