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Underdog · Kasabian

EXERCISE 6 OF 19
Groove E
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0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDS1GH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Underdog on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-24, silence through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44, silence through bars 45-46 and ride through bars 47-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 10 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxx-x-----|
Underdog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 32-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Underdog?

102 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 Underdog hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Underdog?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED