ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suffer on drums

120 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 5:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 80 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 120
LENGTH: 5:09
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

ride through bars 1-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-68 and ride through bars 69-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-13, 15-17 and 19, and 8 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1            2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T1 |-g-x-xX--x-x|-g-x-xX----X|
T2 |g-x-x---x-x-|g-x-x---x--X|
BD |x---------x-|x-----------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Suffer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 112, 118 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 35-67 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Suffer?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Suffer hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Suffer?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 112, 118 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED