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The Warning · bite my tongue

The Warning · bite my tongue
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDBKS2S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Warning on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
The Warning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Warning?

88 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 Warning hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 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 Warning?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED