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Upside Down · 6 Cycle Mind

Upside Down · 6 Cycle Mind
EXERCISE 23 OF 27
Groove K
200 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upside Down on drums

204 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-67, ride through bars 68-82, toms through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-18 and 20-50, and 8 more places -- 70% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x---------------|
BD |x---------------|
Upside Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 51, 67 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 68-159 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Upside Down?

160 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 Upside Down hard to play on drums?

46 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Upside Down?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 51, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED