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Substitution · Silversun Pickups

EXERCISE 16 OF 36
Join Part B to Part C (bars 18-20)
127 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFJBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Substitution on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 59-65, and 5 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x-----|
Substitution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 43, 58, 66 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-136 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-83 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Substitution?

140 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 Substitution hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Substitution?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 43, 58, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED