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Suggestions · System of a Down

EXERCISE 11 OF 22
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 47-49)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART S7
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES7GS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suggestions on drums

113 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-65, silence through bars 66-72, snare through bars 73-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 33-46 and 89-93 -- 33.7% 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 |XxxxXxxxXxxxXxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|
Suggestions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 47, 48, 80, 94 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-88 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Suggestions?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Suggestions hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suggestions?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 47, 48, 80, 94 and 2 more.

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