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RIDDING OF IMPURITIES · FINAL RESTING PLACE

EXERCISE 16 OF 71
Groove I -- Part I
46 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART E
PART P
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AO
OUTRO
15 groovesWAVAGDP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RIDDING OF IMPURITIES on drums

129 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-63, kick and crashes through bars 64-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 9 more places -- 9.5% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------x---x---|
BD |----x---x-----------x-x---------|
RIDDING OF IMPURITIES -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is RIDDING OF IMPURITIES?

158 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 RIDDING OF IMPURITIES hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 RIDDING OF IMPURITIES?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED