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Reservoir · Pup

Reservoir · Pup
EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART F
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJNFWAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reservoir on drums

135 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-49 and toms through bars 50-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 58-65 and 104-110 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x-----x-----|
BD |--x---x-x---x-x-|
Reservoir -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-19 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-130 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reservoir?

172 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 Reservoir hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Reservoir?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED