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Trouble · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBJEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trouble on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-56, 86-96 and 105-128 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-67 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-97 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trouble?

148 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 Trouble hard to play on drums?

35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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