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Red Is The New Black · Funeral For A Friend

EXERCISE 6 OF 36
Join Part S5 to Chorus (bars 35-37)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S5
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEJHS1S5+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Is The New Black on drums

224 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-76, snare through bars 77-80, ride through bars 81-96, hi-hat through bars 97-124 and snare through bars 125-128, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 45-48 and 77-79, and 6 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    185
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-x---x---|
Red Is The New Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 80, 128, 144, 184 and 216.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-55 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-145 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 167-180 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 179-185 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Is The New Black?

176 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 Red Is The New Black hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Red Is The New Black?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 80, 128, 144, 184 and 216.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED