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キング · THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT, thee michelle gun elephant, チバユウスケ

キング · THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT, thee michelle gun elephant, チバユウスケ
EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove N -- Chorus 3
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PART G
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNBGDK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play キング on drums

146 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-90, snare through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-98, ride through bars 99-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-139, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-56, 65-68 and 93-98, and 1 more place -- 21% 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---x-----|
キング -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 27, 28, 36 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-27 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is キング?

180 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 キング hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 キング?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 27, 28, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED