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Violate · Machine Head

EXERCISE 30 OF 32
Run N1 · Outro (bars 99-102)
98 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS8FKN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Violate on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 8:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
8:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 9 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x-----------------------x---|
SD |----x---------x---x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-x---x---x-x-x-x-|
Violate -- 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 32, 33, 37, 45, 49, 69 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Violate?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Violate hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 8:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Violate?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 33, 37, 45, 49, 69 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED