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Earth Song · Michael Jackson -

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus
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BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Earth Song on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 23 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 29, 53, 61, 77, 93 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Earth Song?

138 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 Earth Song hard to play on drums?

39 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Earth Song?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 29, 53, 61, 77, 93 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED