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Saccharine · Violent Vira

EXERCISE 22 OF 39
Fill at bar 88 and 112 (a small one)
110 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART C
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesKHEQS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saccharine on drums

128 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-126 and toms through bars 127-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 17 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|
Saccharine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 32, 88, 110, 112, 116 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-56 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Saccharine?

162 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 Saccharine hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Saccharine?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 32, 88, 110, 112, 116 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED