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True Contrite · Knuckle Puck

EXERCISE 12 OF 67
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
64 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPWKAEAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play True Contrite on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-17, toms through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33 and silence through bars 34-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 31, and 1 more place -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
True Contrite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- K, W -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-31 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is True Contrite?

140 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 True Contrite hard to play on drums?

64 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 True Contrite?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED