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Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart · Against Me!

EXERCISE 17 OF 31
Run I1 · Part I (bars 62-77)
99 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBIOS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-45, ride through bars 46-61, hi-hat through bars 62-77 and ride through bars 78-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 22-44 -- 30.6% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 45, 77, 91, 92, 109 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart?

125 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 Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart hard to play on drums?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 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 Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 45, 77, 91, 92, 109 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED