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Streamline · System of a Down

EXERCISE 19 OF 30
Join Part J to Part L (bars 109-111)
135 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS3LJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Streamline on drums

167 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 131 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-167.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 50-52, and 10 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 49, 65, 90 and 138.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-89 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-166 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-140 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Streamline?

131 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Streamline hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Streamline?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 49, 65, 90 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED