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Secret Society · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1ELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secret Society on drums

122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-47, snare through bars 48-67, hi-hat through bars 68-89, snare through bars 90-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-46, 48-53 and 55-63, and 3 more places -- 71.1% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 47, 54, 67, 89, 96, 97 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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. Open above.
  2. Bars 64-107 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Secret Society?

160 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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?

122 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 47, 54, 67, 89, 96, 97 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED