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Secret Undercover Wrongdoings · Elysium

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove S -- Chorus
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PART B
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
PART AH
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSLBAKAS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secret Undercover Wrongdoings on drums

150 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-55, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-49, 52-53 and 72-73, and 9 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Secret Undercover Wrongdoings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 31, 35, 39, 43, 46, 47 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-32 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-35 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Secret Undercover Wrongdoings?

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 Undercover Wrongdoings hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Secret Undercover Wrongdoings?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 31, 35, 39, 43, 46, 47 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED