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Situations · Escape The Fate

EXERCISE 18 OF 35
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
118 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART E
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART S12
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPLEHS12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Situations on drums

149 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64 and ride through bars 65-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-95, 97-103 and 123, and 1 more place -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Situations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 50, 64 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- P, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break 3 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-97 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Situations?

202 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 Situations hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Situations?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 50, 64 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED