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The worst is yet to come · Still Remains

The worst is yet to come · Still Remains
EXERCISE 23 OF 63
Groove P -- Part P
109 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, PART P
PART C
CHORUS
PART Q
PART P
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOCGACH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The worst is yet to come on drums

185 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-44, toms through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-95, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 105-111 and 113-119, and 2 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
The worst is yet to come -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-144 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The worst is yet to come?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The worst is yet to come hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 worst is yet to come?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED