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Set It Off · Madball

Set It Off · Madball
EXERCISE 24 OF 36
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 48-50)
83 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesEFHBTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set It Off on drums

127 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, snare through bars 73-89 and toms through bars 90-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 15 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Set It Off -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-23 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-91 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Set It Off?

190 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 Set It Off hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Set It Off?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED