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To Defy The Laws Of Tradition · Primus

EXERCISE 21 OF 79
Groove N
80 / 197 BARS COVERED
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PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART S8
PART AP
PART AK
PART BE
OUTRO 2
16 groovesGS2S18AKS8+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Defy The Laws Of Tradition on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-32, hi-hat through bars 33-84, ride through bars 85-97, silence through bars 98-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-118, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 46-47, and 5 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-o-x-x---x-x-x-o-------o---xxxx|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----x---x-----------|
HF |--------------------x-----------|
To Defy The Laws Of Tradition -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 36, 48, 62 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-63 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To Defy The Laws Of Tradition?

107 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 To Defy The Laws Of Tradition hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 To Defy The Laws Of Tradition?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 36, 48, 62 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED