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The Remedy · Puscifer

EXERCISE 24 OF 56
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
129 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART H
BREAK
8 groovesADS12KO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Remedy on drums

216 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 6:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-88, snare through bars 89-104, hi-hat through bars 105-121 and snare through bars 122-123, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-15, and 14 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---|
The Remedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 36, 44, 104, 136, 140 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-105 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 101-124 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Remedy?

180 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Remedy hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 Remedy?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 36, 44, 104, 136, 140 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED