← SONGS

String Theocracy · Mili

EXERCISE 7 OF 39
Groove F
38 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLBS8DZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play String Theocracy on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-20, ride through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36, ride through bars 37-44, silence through bars 45-47 and snare through bars 48-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 37-42 and 57-59 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x---x-------x---x-------x---x-------x---x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
String Theocracy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 19, 35, 43, 47 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-20 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-36 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is String Theocracy?

116 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 String Theocracy hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 String Theocracy?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 19, 35, 43, 47 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED