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Elephants Never Forget V2 · Haken

EXERCISE 33 OF 95
Groove V -- Part V (a two-bar phrase)
90 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART V
PART AE
PART AX
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesS17AABXAEAX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elephants Never Forget V2 on drums

238 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 118 BPM, 11:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
11:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 3-12, ride through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-27, ride through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-39, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53 and 55, and 2 more places -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------|
Elephants Never Forget V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 35, 39 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BW -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BX -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-163 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elephants Never Forget V2?

118 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Elephants Never Forget V2 hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 11:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Elephants Never Forget V2?

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 12, 35, 39 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED