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Suicide is Legal · Psychonaut 4

EXERCISE 33 OF 70
Join Part H to Part J (bars 87-89)
141 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
PART H
PART J
PART S15
PART A
PART P
PART R
PART H
PART X
13 groovesFCHGA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 15
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suicide is Legal on drums

232 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 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
232
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 21 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 56, 96, 168, 216 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- H, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-76 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-107 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suicide is Legal?

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 Suicide is Legal hard to play on drums?

55 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Suicide is Legal?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 56, 96, 168, 216 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED