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The Price · Leprous

EXERCISE 8 OF 57
Groove F
77 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART I
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
PART AF
6 groovesDAFNOI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Price on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, snare through bars 77-90, hi-hat through bars 91-148, snare through bars 149-170 and hi-hat through bars 171-189.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 2 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |----------------x---x-------x---x-----------x---|
The Price -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 44, 52, 76, 133, 148, 164 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Price?

152 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 Price hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

189 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Price?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 44, 52, 76, 133, 148, 164 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED