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Swing The Axe · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 2 OF 86
Groove AA -- Part AA (a two-bar phrase)
14 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA, PART AM
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AM
PART AA
CHORUS 2
12 groovesAEAMS1AA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swing The Axe on drums

186 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-48, toms through bars 49-69, hi-hat through bars 70-84 and snare through bars 85-93, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-72, 75-76 and 79-80, and 5 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------------------f-----------------------|
T1 |x-----x-----------------------------------------|
T2 |x-----x-----------------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
HF |------------------x-----------------------x-----|
Swing The Axe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 20, 21, 31, 35, 45, 49 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Swing The Axe?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Swing The Axe hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Swing The Axe?

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 20, 21, 31, 35, 45, 49 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED