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Cloud Factory · Jinjer

EXERCISE 12 OF 73
Fill at bar 4
52 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART D
PART M
PART P
PART M
PART P
PART Y
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
11 groovesAKMAEPD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cloud Factory on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and snare through bars 48-91, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107, 109 and 111, and 13 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    123
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
Cloud Factory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 24, 28, 39 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cloud Factory?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cloud Factory hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Cloud Factory?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 24, 28, 39 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED