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To negate · Tigran

To negate · Tigran
EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Groove H
39 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AJ
PART AG
PART BV
OUTRO 2
12 groovesADS1AGAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To negate on drums

208 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-26, snare through bars 27-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-50, snare through bars 51-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 10 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |x---x-x-x-x-|
To negate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, C, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-68 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part AJ -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part AG -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AJ -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To negate?

145 BPM, in 3/4, 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 To negate hard to play on drums?

54 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 To negate?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED