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The Patient · Tool

EXERCISE 30 OF 54
4-bar fill at bar 72
56 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AS
COUNT-IN
PART I
PART V
PART S8
CHORUS
PART AS
CHORUS 2
PART S13
BREAK 3
14 groovesS15AMIS13S1+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Patient on drums

151 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 7:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21, silence through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-51 and ride through bars 52-67, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60, 62 and 64, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
CC |x-----------------------x---------------|
RD |--------x---x---x-x-x-------x---x---x---|
SD |------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-----------x---x---|
The Patient -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AM -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part AS -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AS -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-33 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-51 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-71 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part AS and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 81-101 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Patient?

110 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Patient hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Patient?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED