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DMV · Primus

EXERCISE 11 OF 35
Groove H -- Part H
109 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART H
PART I
PART D
PART A
PART D
PART H
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNDFAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DMV on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60, snare through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-139 -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x---------x---x-|
DMV -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 8 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-37 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-100 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DMV?

126 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 DMV hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DMV?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 8 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED