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Struggle without reward · Assailant

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 43 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFLCDS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Struggle without reward on drums

208 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10 and kick and crashes through bars 11-12, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 43-49 and 51-57, and 6 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Struggle without reward -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 58, 90, 110, 118, 128 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-38 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Struggle without reward?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Struggle without reward hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Struggle without reward?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 58, 90, 110, 118, 128 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED