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The Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2 · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 4 OF 84
Groove AG -- Part AG (a two-bar phrase)
28 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AG
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesKPGAAAG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2 on drums

226 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-70, hi-hat through bars 71-83, kick and crashes through bars 84-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-89, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-43 and 46-48, and 10 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|
The Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 23, 25 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, AS -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-58 -- 10 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-87 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2 hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Robot with Human Hair Pt. 2?

18 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 23, 25 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED