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Compass · Counterparts

EXERCISE 16 OF 84
Groove P
76 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART B
PART G
PART R
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART S24
21 groovesZGRS24S23+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 21
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Compass on drums

224 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-49, snare through bars 50-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-81, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 65-72 and 149-155, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------x---------------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x---x-------x---|
Compass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 21, 23, 29, 30 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- Z, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-10 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Compass?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Compass hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Compass?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 21, 23, 29, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED