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The Underking · Mick Gordon

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART S12
PART Q
BREAK 7
CHORUS 5
PART D
PART S28
OUTRO
25 groovesAS28S21S1D+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Underking on drums

228 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-27, toms through bars 28-32, snare through bars 33-41, silence through bars 42-48 and snare through bars 49-57, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 93, and 3 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    141
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |--------x---x-----------------------x-----------|
The Underking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 181, 182 and 191.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-65 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-110 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 132-183 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Underking?

141 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 Underking hard to play on drums?

53 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Underking?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 181, 182 and 191.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED