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THE WORST IS YET TO COME · Distortion

EXERCISE 34 OF 59
Join Part O to Chorus 3 (bars 67-69)
120 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHLOAEW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THE WORST IS YET TO COME on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and toms through bars 34-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-24 and 46-47, and 6 more places -- 14.6% 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----x--x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
THE WORST IS YET TO COME -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-136 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-90 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is THE WORST IS YET TO COME?

150 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 WORST IS YET TO COME hard to play on drums?

62 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?

144 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 WORST IS YET TO COME?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED