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split · Thrown

EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
46 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBKS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play split on drums

75 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 32.4% 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
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |X-----X-----X-X-|
split -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-41 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is split?

171 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 split hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in split?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED