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Watch me decompose · FATAAL

EXERCISE 29 OF 40
Run R1 · Part R (bars 97-100)
124 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
PART S10
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFLBPS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watch me decompose on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-51 and toms through bars 52-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------xg--|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Watch me decompose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 96, 100 and 123.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 84-101 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-120 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 117-154 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watch me decompose?

143 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 Watch me decompose hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Watch me decompose?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 96, 100 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED