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2112 I Overture · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove P -- Part P
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0 / 63 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART B
PART A
PART S3
PART P
PART S11
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAYBAPAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2112 I Overture on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and toms through bars 17-18, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39 -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-xx--x-|
HF |x-------x-------|
2112 I Overture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP, AY -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-101 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-55 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S11 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2112 I Overture?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 2112 I Overture hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 2112 I Overture?

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED