← SONGS

570 · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove M -- Chorus
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Y
PART AE
PART AH
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMBPYAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 570 on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-37, toms through bars 38-40, snare through bars 41-55, toms through bars 56-57 and kick and crashes through bars 58-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 35-37, and 4 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x-x-|
570 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 16, 19, 20 and 13 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-58 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is 570?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 570 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 570?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 16, 19, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED