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Protocol · Simon Phillips

Protocol · Simon Phillips
EXERCISE 2 OF 54
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
10 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
PART C
PART F
PART Y
PART AK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVFYAKCA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Protocol on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-83, snare through bars 84-85 and toms through bars 86-103, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 46, and 6 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x---------x-----x-----------|
Protocol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Protocol?

120 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 Protocol hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Protocol?

9 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED