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The Logical Song · Supertramp

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove E -- Chorus
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BREAK
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART J
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEHJMS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Logical Song on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-48, ride through bars 49-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-131.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20-21 and 24, and 10 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
The Logical Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 17, 48, 54, 96, 100 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-80 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-50 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Logical Song?

119 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 Logical Song hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Logical Song?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 17, 48, 54, 96, 100 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED