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Urban Discipline · Biohazard

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 74 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART H
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFBALOH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Urban Discipline on drums

196 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-64, toms through bars 65-75, silence through bars 76-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-100, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-33 -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 57, 65, 87, 97, 99, 104 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-108 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-100 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Urban Discipline?

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

Is Urban Discipline hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Urban Discipline?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 57, 65, 87, 97, 99, 104 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED