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Recovery · Funeral For A Friend

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove J -- Outro
50 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART B, OUTRO
PART E
PART G
PART B
PART G
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
11 groovesJENGB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Recovery on drums

159 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8-14 and 16, and 4 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Recovery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 15, 25, 31, 55 and 159.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-77 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Recovery?

186 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 Recovery hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 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 Recovery?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 15, 25, 31, 55 and 159.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED