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The Idiot Kings · Soul Coughing

The Idiot Kings · Soul Coughing
EXERCISE 18 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Idiot Kings on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-100 and ride through bars 101-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 33-47, and 5 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 102, 103 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-80 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 67-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-85 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-99 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Idiot Kings?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Idiot Kings hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Idiot Kings?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 102, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED