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Think · Drowning Pool

EXERCISE 2 OF 36
Groove H -- Part H
16 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBOHEL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Think on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 22, and 9 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-x-------x-----x-----|
Think -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 21, 42, 55, 56, 57 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-22 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Think?

93 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 Think hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

82 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 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 Think?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 21, 42, 55, 56, 57 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED