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THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST · Psycho-Frame

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove AZ -- Outro
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PART S2
PART K
PART S
PART W
PART AC
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHKAZSW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 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
97
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-18, hi-hat through bars 19-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-34, snare through bars 35-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-86, 88 and 91-92 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---------------x-------|
THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AZ -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-35 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST?

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 hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED