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Tragedy · Counterparts

EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Fill at bar 25
57 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
PART N
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDNS5AAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tragedy on drums

182 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-64, silence through bars 65-78 and kick and crashes through bars 79-96, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-41 and 44-46, and 6 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
Tragedy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 29, 42, 50, 96, 97 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-87 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-163 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tragedy?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tragedy hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tragedy?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 29, 42, 50, 96, 97 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED