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Secret Society (full) · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secret Society (full) on drums

119 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-44, snare through bars 45-60, toms through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-86 and snare through bars 87-102, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-43, 45-50 and 52-60, and 4 more places -- 77.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 51, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Secret Society (full)?

159 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 Secret Society (full) hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Secret Society (full)?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 51, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED