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Statement Of Intent · BIS

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
99 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Statement Of Intent on drums

154 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and snare through bars 38-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-36 and 70-80, and 2 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Statement Of Intent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 37, 63, 64, 65, 81 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-57 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Statement Of Intent?

155 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 Statement Of Intent hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Statement Of Intent?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 37, 63, 64, 65, 81 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED