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RED: SSD · DAGames

EXERCISE 28 OF 63
Join Part E to Part H (bars 36-38)
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0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
7 groovesLEAHAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RED: SSD on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-37 and snare through bars 38-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 14-16, and 15 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x---------------x-x-x---x-x-x---|
RED: SSD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 21, 29 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-87 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-20 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-74 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is RED: SSD?

140 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 RED: SSD hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 RED: SSD?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 21, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED