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EXERCISE 17 OF 39
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 9-11)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesCHWEN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whole on drums

61 bars, 4:17, at 56 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, toms through bars 34-37 and ride through bars 38-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 15-17 and 26-33 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-19 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 15-28 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-61 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whole?

56 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Whole hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Whole?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED