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Untruth · Ethic

Untruth · Ethic
EXERCISE 28 OF 68
Run O1 · Part O (bars 25-34)
83 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFZOSC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Untruth on drums

118 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|
Untruth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-80 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-117 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 31-52 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Untruth?

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

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Untruth?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED