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Dimensions · Joshua Milo

Dimensions · Joshua Milo
EXERCISE 28 OF 94
Groove S -- Part S
50 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART S
PART S12
PART S18
PART BW
PART Z
PART S23
OUTRO
30 groovesHZS23S12S18+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 3
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dimensions on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, silence through bars 42-55, hi-hat through bars 56-81, ride through bars 82-86, hi-hat through bars 87-93 and silence through bars 94-97, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 6 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 81 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- DX -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 40-67 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dimensions?

112 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 Dimensions hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Dimensions?

19 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED