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Subdivisions · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove Y -- Part Y
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PART B
PART I
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
BREAK
15 groovesAAS18YXB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subdivisions on drums

159 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 134 BPM, 5:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, ride through bars 23-27, snare through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-68 and ride through bars 69-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-67, 113 and 115-120 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-|
Subdivisions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 5-23 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Subdivisions?

134 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Subdivisions hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Subdivisions?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED