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Ego-maniac · Roadkill

Ego-maniac · Roadkill
EXERCISE 8 OF 39
Groove E
82 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART G
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHATLG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ego-maniac on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-102, toms through bars 103-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96, 98-100 and 102, and 6 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-o-o-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Ego-maniac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 103 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- T, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-37 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-54 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-62 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-87 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ego-maniac?

140 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 Ego-maniac hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ego-maniac?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED