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Connector · A Lot Like Birds

EXERCISE 16 OF 92
Groove I
72 / 251 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART X
PART AI
PART AS
PART BI
PART BN
PART BT
PART BX
PART AI
OUTRO
18 groovesASEAIXBT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Connector on drums

251 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 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
251
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-35, snare through bars 36-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-58, silence through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and snare through bars 85-86, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-67, 69-74 and 199-205, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61               62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-------x-----|x-----x-------x-|
SD |--------x-----x-|------------x---|
BD |x---x-------x---|--x--x--x-------|
Connector -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 76 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AI -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Connector?

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 Connector hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Connector?

20 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED