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Andromeda · gru

Andromeda · gru
EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove BB -- Part BB (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BB
COUNT-IN
PART K
PART U
PART AA
PART AV
PART BB
PART BF
PART BL
PART BV
OUTRO
15 groovesCIAABVBFBB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Andromeda on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-74, ride through bars 75-78, hi-hat through bars 79-120, toms through bars 121-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-175, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 84-90 and 92-97 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    84               85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|------x-----x---|
BD |----x---x--x--x-|x--x--x-x-x-x---|
Andromeda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- BB, BF -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-33 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Andromeda?

132 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 Andromeda hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Andromeda?

14 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED