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Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag · White Zombie

EXERCISE 4 OF 43
Groove K -- Part K
72 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDRUKM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-50, toms through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 7 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xxx-x---x-|
Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 52, 56, 66 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, R -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-71 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag?

122 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 Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 52, 56, 66 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED