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Schizophrenic · Will Lee

Schizophrenic · Will Lee
EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART P
PART B
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJBCCOW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Schizophrenic on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-48, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 29 and 106-121, and 1 more place -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    106
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--------------x-----x--x-----------------|
Schizophrenic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 26, 35, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Schizophrenic?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Schizophrenic?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 26, 35, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED