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EXERCISE 24 OF 45
5-bar fill at bar 89
47 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART F
PART L
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVS1S3JT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closure on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, toms through bars 58-61 and snare through bars 62-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 68 and 70, and 6 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |X-x---x-----x-x-|
Closure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 45, 47, 55, 57, 58, 59 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-48 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-56 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-86 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-94 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Closure?

147 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 Closure hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Closure?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 45, 47, 55, 57, 58, 59 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED