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Swamped · Lacuna Coil

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesCGS1AS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swamped on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 45, and 17 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Swamped -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 68 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-110 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Swamped?

138 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 Swamped hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Swamped?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 68 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED