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Traffick · Dark//Matter

Traffick · Dark//Matter
EXERCISE 11 OF 40
Join Part E to Part F (bars 23-25)
103 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART F
PART A
PART D
PART E
PART F
PART D
PART E
PART F
PART H
PART D
PART E
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVFHDE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Traffick on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-88 and silence through bars 89-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-133, 135-141 and 143-149, and 1 more place -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    127
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Traffick -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 29-57 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Traffick?

118 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 Traffick hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 Traffick?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED