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The Test · Pain of Truth

The Test · Pain of Truth
EXERCISE 2 OF 12
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Test on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-66 -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Test?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Test hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Test?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED