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The grudge (better) · Tool

EXERCISE 3 OF 104
Groove B -- Part B
17 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART BM
OUTRO
23 groovesRBDWBM+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 6
JOIN · 22
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The grudge (better) on drums

225 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 8:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-43, silence through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-51, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-67, 83-86 and 139-143 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
T2 |X---x-X---X---x-X---x-x-X---X---x-x-x---|
FT |X---x-X---X---x-x---x-x-X---X---x-x-X---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-------x---x-------x---|
The grudge (better) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 73, 77, 80, 81, 91, 92 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 89 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, BM -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-26 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-52 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The grudge (better)?

98 BPM, in 5/4, 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 grudge (better) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 8:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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 grudge (better)?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 73, 77, 80, 81, 91, 92 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED