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schizophrenic and armed · Tzarbombah

EXERCISE 31 OF 50
Groove N -- Part N
107 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
PART A
PART H
PART M
PART N
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOMFNH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play schizophrenic and armed on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36 and 69-84 -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
schizophrenic and armed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- M, O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-36 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-43 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is schizophrenic and armed?

142 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 schizophrenic and armed hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 schizophrenic and armed?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED