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Subliminal · Suicidal Tendencies

EXERCISE 31 OF 41
Run J2 · Chorus 2 (bars 59-78)
81 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
10 groovesJCFS14S4+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subliminal on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, silence through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-54, toms through bars 55-56 and silence through bars 57-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 28-31 and 34-37, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 9, 16, 21, 39, 43 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-78 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-92 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Subliminal?

98 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 Subliminal hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Subliminal?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 9, 16, 21, 39, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED