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Beneath The Machine · Sanctity

EXERCISE 30 OF 67
Join Chorus to Part M (bars 40-42)
105 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AE
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIAECVP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath The Machine on drums

143 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 48-54, and 7 more places -- 23.8% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beneath The Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 33, 37 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I, AE -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-64 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beneath The Machine?

185 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 Beneath The Machine hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Beneath The Machine?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 33, 37 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED