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Assassin · John Mayer

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 26 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Assassin on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 32-34 and 36, and 10 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x--x--x-----|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x---x--------x--|
Assassin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 42, 46, 48, 50 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-75 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Assassin?

80 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 Assassin hard to play on drums?

53 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Assassin?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 42, 46, 48, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED