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Self-Control · Laura, Branigan

Self-Control · Laura, Branigan
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self-Control on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-86 and snare through bars 87-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-56 and 71-86, and 1 more place -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-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 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-64 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-56 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-94 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED