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Society · Pennywise

EXERCISE 28 OF 53
Chorus 2 into Part L with the record (bars 38-45)
120 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART L
PART D
PART R
OUTRO
7 groovesGLADR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Society on drums

152 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, toms through bars 6-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-29, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-------|
HH |--o-o-----o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Society -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Society?

180 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 Society hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Society?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED