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Song 5 · Diseased Ways

EXERCISE 16 OF 53
2-bar fill at bar 20 and 1 more
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PART A
PART E
PART I
PART N
PART Q
PART U
PART E
PART I
BREAK 4
OUTRO
14 groovesS16EQIU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 5 on drums

82 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 2:40 of playing on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-26, silence through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-69, toms through bars 70-71 and snare through bars 72-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |--xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx-|
Song 5 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 26 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 -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-15 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-19 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-44 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-46 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song 5?

170 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Song 5 hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Song 5?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED