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Drive · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Run C4 · Outro 2 (bars 53-74)
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drive on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 2-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 27-36 and 41-48, and 1 more place -- 64.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
T2 |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x-x-|
Drive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-49 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Drive?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Drive hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drive?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED