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The Grip Tightens · Revocation 1

The Grip Tightens · Revocation 1
EXERCISE 18 OF 68
Groove K
102 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS
PART V
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
13 groovesJGTQV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Grip Tightens on drums

238 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-47 and snare through bars 48-56, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |X---X---X---X---|
The Grip Tightens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 38 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-53 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Grip Tightens?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Grip Tightens hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 The Grip Tightens?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED