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Thicker · The Blank Theory

Thicker · The Blank Theory
EXERCISE 19 OF 36
Join Part K to Part O (bars 25-27)
63 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART O
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesES12KOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thicker on drums

108 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-75, toms through bars 76-78, hi-hat through bars 79-90 and silence through bars 91-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 12 and 31-32, and 10 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---------------|------------------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----x-------x---x-----x-|
Thicker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 17, 23, 30 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-75 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 74-80 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thicker?

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

Is Thicker hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thicker?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 17, 23, 30 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED