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Thoughtless · Korn

EXERCISE 18 OF 30
Run H1 · Part H (bars 19-24)
77 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesJFHBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thoughtless on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 3-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-53, snare through bars 54-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and silence through bars 69-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31 and 45-49, and 3 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------------x-|
HH |--o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|--o-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx----x|x-xx---xx--x-xx-|
Thoughtless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 44, 50, 78 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-25 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 51-87 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thoughtless?

77 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 Thoughtless hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Thoughtless?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 30, 32, 44, 50, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED