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The Guilty Party · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 9 OF 54
Groove B
75 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART S8
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesERS13S1C+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Guilty Party on drums

239 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71, snare through bars 72-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-119, 121-127 and 209-215, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |X-X-X---X-X-X-X-|
The Guilty Party -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 48, 56, 72, 80, 84 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-137 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-74 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-89 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Guilty Party?

218 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 Guilty Party hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Guilty Party?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 48, 56, 72, 80, 84 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED