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EXERCISE 12 OF 42
Join Chorus to Break 2 (bars 16-18)
45 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGUZBP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Violent Nature on drums

91 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-29, hi-hat through bars 30-42, snare through bars 43-58 and toms through bars 59-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Violent Nature -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 34, 66, 90 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G, H (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-26 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-51 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Violent Nature?

170 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 Violent Nature hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Violent Nature?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 34, 66, 90 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED