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Remedy · The Black Crowes

EXERCISE 24 OF 37
Fill at bar 102 (a small one)
134 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesCNIS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Remedy on drums

165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-110, hi-hat through bars 111-160 and silence through bars 161-162, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-71, 111 and 113-115, and 7 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    57               58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|----x-x---x-x---|
Remedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 24, 34, 40 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- N, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-78 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Remedy?

160 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 Remedy hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Remedy?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 24, 34, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED