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Seeing Red · Architects

EXERCISE 14 OF 74
Groove H
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PART G
PART I
PART S6
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S14
OUTRO
15 groovesMDEAPU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seeing Red on drums

149 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, silence through bars 26-32 and snare through bars 33-39, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39 and 43-44, 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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |x---x-x-------x-|----x-----x---x-|
Seeing Red -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- M, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 13-25 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seeing Red?

164 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 Seeing Red hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Seeing Red?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 24, 40, 41 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED