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Shard Throat · Gutrectomy

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesEAEWSJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shard Throat on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and snare through bars 28-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 15, and 4 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Shard Throat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-44 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-67 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shard Throat?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shard Throat hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Shard Throat?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED