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Elevation · U2

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
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CHORUS
PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elevation on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-43 and ride through bars 44-54, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 37-43 and 63-78, and 3 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Elevation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 62, 108 and 150.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 32-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elevation?

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

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elevation?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 62, 108 and 150.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED