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Recreant · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove I -- Part I
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PART C
PART I
PART I
PART R
PART I
PART Y
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS19IRYAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Recreant on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:15 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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 29, and 4 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----x-----x-----|
Recreant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-29 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Recreant?

125 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 Recreant hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 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 Recreant?

24 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED