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Москва · THE IRON BEES

Москва · THE IRON BEES
EXERCISE 5 OF 54
Groove N -- Outro 2
36 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART J
PART N
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHNEJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Москва on drums

105 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, toms through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80, ride through bars 81-84, hi-hat through bars 85-102 and snare through bars 103-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 49-55 and 73-78 -- 17.5% 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---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Москва -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 16, 30, 32, 39, 48 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-22 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Москва?

185 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 Москва 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Москва?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 16, 30, 32, 39, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED