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Edge of Desire (V2) · John Mayer

EXERCISE 13 OF 26
Fill at bar 153, 161, 169 and 3 more (a small one)
219 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBFDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge of Desire (V2) on drums

238 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 136 BPM, 5:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
37/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-147, toms through bars 148-149, hi-hat through bars 150-227, toms through bars 228-229 and ride through bars 230-238.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-48, 50-80 and 82-112, and 3 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2            3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|x-----x---g-|
BD |x-----------|------------|
Edge of Desire (V2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 49, 113, 148, 149, 153 and 17 more.

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 -- B, F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-153 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Edge of Desire (V2)?

136 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Edge of Desire (V2) hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit 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?

238 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Edge of Desire (V2)?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 49, 113, 148, 149, 153 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED