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Uncomfortably Numb (not AI) · American Football

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uncomfortably Numb (not AI) on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 21-28 and 37-40, and 3 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----xx|
BD |x---x---------x-x-----x---x-----|
Uncomfortably Numb (not AI) -- 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 14 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-42 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Uncomfortably Numb (not AI)?

86 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 Uncomfortably Numb (not AI) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED