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Set It Off · Audioslave

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFEIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set It Off on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 19, and 9 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x--xx---x---|
Set It Off -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 5 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Set It Off?

87 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 Set It Off 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Set It Off?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 5 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED