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Between me and the machine · Resolve

EXERCISE 19 OF 93
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
87 / 241 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART S2
PART C
PART E
PART J
PART AA
BREAK
CHORUS
16 groovesS13AMS2EAA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Between me and the machine on drums

241 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 6:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-47, snare through bars 48-65, ride through bars 66-89, snare through bars 90-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-113, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 182-188, 190-192 and 194, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    182                      183
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|----------------------x-|
RD |----x---x---X---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------------------|x-----------x-----------|
BD |x---------------------x-|----------x-----------x-|
Between me and the machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AM -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part W -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-89 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Between me and the machine?

106 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Between me and the machine hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Between me and the machine?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED