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Bone Marrow Incubatis · chopikk

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART AW
PART AS
PART Y
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDGJYAS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 19
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bone Marrow Incubatis on drums

227 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, ride through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17 and ride through bars 18-21, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 18-19 and 32-34, and 9 more places -- 13% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bone Marrow Incubatis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 20, 35 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-37 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-50 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bone Marrow Incubatis?

230 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 Bone Marrow Incubatis hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 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 Bone Marrow Incubatis?

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 20, 35 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED