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unused song · Reptile

unused song · Reptile
EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove AK -- Outro
0 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesABAKDOAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play unused song on drums

181 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-59 and kick and crashes through bars 60-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 142, 144-146 and 148-150, and 9 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    144
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |X-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
unused song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 27, 33, 34 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-56 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is unused song?

204 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 unused song hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 unused song?

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 27, 33, 34 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED