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Earrings (for band) · Malcolm Todd

EXERCISE 15 OF 18
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 79-81)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART S3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABS3GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Earrings (for band) on drums

96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, silence through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 18-32 and 34-48, and 1 more place -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---o---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|--x-x-----x---x-|
Earrings (for band) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-49 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Earrings (for band)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Earrings (for band) hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Earrings (for band)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

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