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Creature · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 4 OF 46
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
34 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCSBGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creature on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-35, snare through bars 36-54, hi-hat through bars 55-75, snare through bars 76-81 and silence through bars 82-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 11 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-g-----|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Creature -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27 and 20 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 -- S, T -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-43 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-54 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Creature?

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

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Creature?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED