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Spleen (AI) · Peste Noire

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART S10
OUTRO
10 groovesAACTCS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spleen (AI) on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-45, hi-hat through bars 46-55, ride through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-65 and ride through bars 66-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 49-55 and 61-63, and 1 more place -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-77 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spleen (AI)?

125 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 Spleen (AI) hard to play on drums?

63 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spleen (AI)?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED