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Senseless Anxiety · At the Ninth Gate

EXERCISE 5 OF 74
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 228 BARS COVERED
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PART C
PART E
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKPELC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Senseless Anxiety on drums

228 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-47, toms through bars 48-50, snare through bars 51-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-70 and 73-75, and 13 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Senseless Anxiety -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 61, 80 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- L, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-51 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-104 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-160 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Senseless Anxiety?

180 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 Senseless Anxiety hard to play on drums?

53 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Senseless Anxiety?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 61, 80 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED