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The Negative · I Prevail

EXERCISE 24 OF 48
Run G1 · Part G (bars 30-42)
59 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGRDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Negative on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21-27 and 41-42, and 2 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Negative?

138 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 Negative hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Negative?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED