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Self Control · Laura Branigan

Self Control · Laura Branigan
EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
106 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 109 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
VERSE
PART I
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
4 groovesFDIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self Control on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-57, snare through bars 58-60, hi-hat through bars 61-87, snare through bars 88-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-41 and 43, and 15 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Self Control -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Self Control?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Self Control hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED