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Creatures · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 90
Groove V -- Outro 2
0 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART A
PART F
PART K
PART N
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZQAVAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creatures on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-77, snare through bars 78-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-93, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Creatures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24 and 23 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 -- V, A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Creatures?

145 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 Creatures hard to play on drums?

49 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Creatures?

20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED