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Sad Statue · System of a Down

EXERCISE 22 OF 50
Join Part I to Part G (bars 27-29)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART G
PART C
PART F
PART I
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S16
PART O
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLQCFG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sad Statue on drums

145 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-87, silence through bars 88-94, ride through bars 95-102, hi-hat through bars 103-118 and ride through bars 119-136, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-52, 77-79 and 81-86 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Sad Statue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-22 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-38 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sad Statue?

167 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 Sad Statue hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

145 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Sad Statue?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED