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Elephants · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 11 OF 72
Part A into Part B with the record (bars 5-12)
163 / 318 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART T
CHORUS 4
9 groovesPTYEJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elephants on drums

318 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 7:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-120, ride through bars 121-128, hi-hat through bars 129-136, ride through bars 137-155, hi-hat through bars 156-220 and ride through bars 221-228, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 65, and 53 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |--------f-------|
T2 |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-----------|
HF |x-------x-------|
Elephants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 57, 58, 64 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- N, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elephants?

176 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 Elephants hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

318 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 57, 58, 64 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED