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Under Con · Death Sphere

Under Con · Death Sphere
EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove M -- Outro
52 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
PART L
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBGIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under Con on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-80, silence through bars 81-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 6 more places -- 24.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---xx|
Under Con -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 15 and 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-36 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-95 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-128 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under Con?

90 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 Under Con hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Under Con?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 15 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED