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So Damn Dangerous · Dea Matrona

So Damn Dangerous · Dea Matrona
EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGKWFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Damn Dangerous on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 2:59 of playing, 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
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, ride through bars 44-46, toms through bars 47-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 4 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-53 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Damn Dangerous?

91 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 So Damn Dangerous 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 So Damn Dangerous?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED