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Red · Leprous

EXERCISE 27 OF 42
Run P1 · Part P (bars 29-48)
66 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART B
PART K
PART P
PART S5
CHORUS
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAFS9PBAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red on drums

127 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-33, snare through bars 34-36, toms through bars 37-49, silence through bars 50-56 and snare through bars 57-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59, 61-65 and 67, and 3 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61                                       62
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
SD |X-ggX-X-g-g-X-g-g-g-X-X-g-g-X-g-g-g-X-X-|g-g-X-g-g-g-X-g-X-g-g-X-g-g-X-X-g-g-g-X-|
HF |x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------|
Red -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S5 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-82 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AJ -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red?

110 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Red hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Red?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED