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Simple Boy · Karnivool

EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Groove G
118 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART E, PART Q
PART D
PART E
PART D
PART E
PART D
PART S8
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTES8DQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simple Boy on drums

185 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-69, silence through bars 70-77, snare through bars 78-101, hi-hat through bars 102-137 and toms through bars 138-153, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-104, 106-108 and 111-112, and 11 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
Simple Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- T, Q, R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-103 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-157 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Simple Boy?

131 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 Simple Boy hard to play on drums?

56 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Simple Boy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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