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Stealing Society · System of a Down

EXERCISE 18 OF 37
Groove H
110 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART D
PART G
PART K
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
8 groovesPKGCD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stealing Society on drums

141 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-84, 86-104 and 106-108, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x---|
Stealing Society -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 17, 109 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- P, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-78 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stealing Society?

185 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 Stealing Society hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Stealing Society?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 17, 109 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED