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The Noose · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRHLES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Noose on drums

77 bars, 4:40, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52 and ride through bars 53-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32 and 54 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----gg|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x---------|
The Noose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-27 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-53 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Noose?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Noose hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Noose?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED