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Desire · Meg Myers

Desire · Meg Myers
EXERCISE 10 OF 10
Play the whole song with the record
119 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 150 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desire on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-104, silence through bars 105-136 and hi-hat through bars 137-150.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39, 41-47 and 49-79, and 3 more places -- 89.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Desire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Desire?

132 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 Desire hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Desire?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED