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refr · pojuke
EXERCISE 2 OF 39
Groove I
12 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGBJN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play refr on drums

74 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
94/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47 and silence through bars 48-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------x--------x--x--------x--|
refr -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is refr?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is refr hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 refr?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED