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The Writer · Breakdown Of Sanity

EXERCISE 17 OF 88
Groove M -- Part M
44 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O, PART M
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART M
PART AH
PART AL
PART AP
PART N
PART BG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesDQAPBPN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Writer on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-54, hi-hat through bars 55-60, snare through bars 61-69, ride through bars 70-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-76, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 19-21 and 23-25 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-x-----|x-x---x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x---|
The Writer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 29, 40, 48, 52 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-57 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 9-116 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Writer?

150 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 Writer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Writer?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 29, 40, 48, 52 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED