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Song 8 v3 · Consuming Aberration

Song 8 v3 · Consuming Aberration
EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Join Part B to Part C (bars 23-25)
86 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
PART A
PART B
PART C
PART K
PART M
PART W
13 groovesQTWKM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 8 v3 on drums

177 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-31, snare through bars 32-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-68, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-68, 78-84 and 150-156 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62               63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|x---x-----------|
Song 8 v3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 59, 61, 69, 73, 77, 85 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-45 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-110 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song 8 v3?

182 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 Song 8 v3 hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 8 v3?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 59, 61, 69, 73, 77, 85 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED