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repeat offender · Snuffed On Sight

EXERCISE 15 OF 53
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART R
PART U
PART X
PART E
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDNEJX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play repeat offender on drums

79 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-39 and toms through bars 40-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33-35 and 51-52, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
repeat offender -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 13, 16, 31, 32, 36 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-51 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-32 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-46 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is repeat offender?

200 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 repeat offender hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 repeat offender?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 13, 16, 31, 32, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED