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Submission · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 21 OF 60
Run F1 · Part F (bars 21-30)
81 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART AA
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesDFJSAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Submission on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, snare through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-63, ride through bars 64-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 14-19 and 28-29, and 5 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D, S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-61 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-69 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-98 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-49 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Submission?

118 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 Submission hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Submission?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED