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Schematics · Dying Fetus

EXERCISE 20 OF 77
Groove J -- Part J
76 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART X
PART R
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDMAFHJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schematics on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-107, kick and crashes through bars 108-112, snare through bars 113-131 and ride through bars 132-139, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 19 and 21, and 4 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Schematics -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 45, 49 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 38-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Schematics?

150 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 Schematics hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Schematics?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 45, 49 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED