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Bones Exposed · Of Mice And Men

EXERCISE 32 OF 58
Run O1 · Part O (bars 51-57)
102 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKEQS14A+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bones Exposed on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24 and snare through bars 25-32, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-48 and 60, and 8 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|--x-x---------x-|
Bones Exposed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-134 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bones Exposed?

140 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 Bones Exposed hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bones Exposed?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED