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EXERCISE 11 OF 58
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 7-9)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesBCDGK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Untitled 1 on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-42, toms through bars 43-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 18 and 20, and 8 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 21, 23, 26 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-92 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Untitled 1?

128 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 Untitled 1 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Untitled 1?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 21, 23, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED