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Unequal whole · Boundaries

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 55 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AE
10 groovesCFAEIQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unequal whole on drums

123 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, toms through bars 30-38 and silence through bars 39-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-21, and 5 more places -- 42.1% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Unequal whole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 24 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-103 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unequal whole?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unequal whole hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Unequal whole?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 22, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED