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EXERCISE 33 OF 35
Play the whole song with the record
124 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 128 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play REPULSIVE IN ITS SPLENDID BEAUTY on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, toms through bars 81-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 13 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
REPULSIVE IN ITS SPLENDID BEAUTY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 32, 35, 36, 40, 43, 44 and 27 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-68 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-105 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is REPULSIVE IN ITS SPLENDID BEAUTY?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 REPULSIVE IN ITS SPLENDID BEAUTY hard to play on drums?

48 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 REPULSIVE IN ITS SPLENDID BEAUTY?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 32, 35, 36, 40, 43, 44 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED