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BIRDS · Turnstile

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Join Part H to Part K (bars 50-52)
66 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBOGHM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BIRDS on drums

90 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and snare through bars 51-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-77 and 83-89 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 62, 78, 82 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- O, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-63 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 54-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is BIRDS?

181 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 BIRDS hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 BIRDS?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 62, 78, 82 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED