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Circles · Post Malone

EXERCISE 20 OF 22
Play the whole song with the record
86 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 102 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
8 groovesBCES1G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circles on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-48 and 65-80, and 1 more place -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-48 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-68 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Circles?

120 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 Circles hard to play on drums?

51 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Circles?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED