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THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) · Psycho-Frame

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove AN -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART X
PART P
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJABANXR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, snare through bars 42-51, hi-hat through bars 52-69, ride through bars 70-71 and snare through bars 72-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-81, 84-85 and 88-89, and 1 more place -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80                                                               81
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x----x-----x---------x-----x--------------------x----x-----x----|-----x-----x----x---------------x----x-----x---------x-----x----|
THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 9, 19, 33 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 1-27 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.)?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.)?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 9, 19, 33 and 11 more.

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