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Stress Relief · late night drive home
EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove C -- Outro
70 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesFCBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stress Relief on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 34 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Stress Relief -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 60, 64, 109 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stress Relief?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Stress Relief hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Stress Relief?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 60, 64, 109 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED