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The Disconnect · Counterparts

EXERCISE 4 OF 76
Groove U -- Part U
16 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART E
CHORUS
PART U
PART U
PART AC
PART W
PART AL
PART AQ
PART D
PART BB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIUACAQW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Disconnect on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-18, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 17-18 and 21-22, and 3 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |X---X-------X---X---X-------X---|
The Disconnect -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 10, 11, 20, 28, 29 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Disconnect?

115 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 The Disconnect hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 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, 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 The Disconnect?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 10, 11, 20, 28, 29 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED