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Reinventing Your Exit · Underoath

EXERCISE 16 OF 45
Groove N
130 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART S
PART X
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAXSAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reinventing Your Exit on drums

163 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 33-39 and 41-43, and 11 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Reinventing Your Exit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 50, 90, 98, 108 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part X -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-139 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reinventing Your Exit?

155 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 Reinventing Your Exit hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Reinventing Your Exit?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 50, 90, 98, 108 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED