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象 · SUPER EIGHT

象 · SUPER EIGHT
EXERCISE 26 OF 41
Join Part O to Chorus (bars 48-50)
80 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, CHORUS
PART F
PART L
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesHFLS9O+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 象 on drums

112 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 50-55 and 92-95, and 2 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 25, 41, 57, 80, 96 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-79 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-95 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 象?

167 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 象 hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 象?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 25, 41, 57, 80, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED