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Secrets Within · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 14 OF 64
Groove T (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART Y
PART S12
PART AQ
PART BC
OUTRO
BREAK 5
17 groovesS25QJYH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Secrets Within on drums

166 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 215 BPM, 3:45 of playing 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
215 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-15, ride through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-41 and ride through bars 42-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 20-22 and 55, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........
CC |x-----------------------------x-----------------------------|
SD |------------------------------x-----------------------------|
BD |x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----|
Secrets Within -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 54, 82, 93, 108 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-24 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Secrets Within?

215 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Secrets Within hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 22 sittings, about 22 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 Secrets Within?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 54, 82, 93, 108 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED