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Worthless · Vs Self

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove E -- Part E
23 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIS6BEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worthless on drums

66 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-51 and silence through bars 52-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-49 -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Worthless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 25 and 29.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-26 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Worthless?

200 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 Worthless hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Worthless?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 25 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED