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Systemic · All My Wishes Were Thrown Down a Well and Should Die There

Systemic · All My Wishes Were Thrown Down a Well and Should Die There
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove Q -- Chorus
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0 / 43 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesQCLHR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Systemic on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-19, hi-hat through bars 20-22, ride through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-44 and silence through bars 45-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-54, 65-66 and 68-70, and 2 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---------------------------|
Systemic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 35 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Q, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Systemic?

90 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 Systemic hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Systemic?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 35 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED