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Sterility · Primitive Man

Sterility · Primitive Man
EXERCISE 14 OF 47
Run B1 · Part B (bars 7-11)
103 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDAACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sterility on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-71, hi-hat through bars 72-111 and snare through bars 112-135, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-46, 48 and 50-54, and 24 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Sterility -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 20, 33, 35 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-19 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 28-48 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sterility?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sterility hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sterility?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 20, 33, 35 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED