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White Hot · Loathe

EXERCISE 15 OF 62
Fill at bar 15 (a small one)
49 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AI
PART AN
11 groovesDAAAAIAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Hot on drums

141 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 14, and 19 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----x---x-|
White Hot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 15, 24 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-39 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is White Hot?

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

Is White Hot hard to play on drums?

55 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 White Hot?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 15, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED