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Elevator Operator · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove E
23 / 112 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
PART G
PART K
BREAK 7
OUTRO
11 groovesDGS9S1S14+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elevator Operator on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, silence through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32 and silence through bars 33-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 26 and 30, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---xxxx|
Elevator Operator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 60, 88, 90, 104, 109 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 31-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 6 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elevator Operator?

145 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 Elevator Operator hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Elevator Operator?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 60, 88, 90, 104, 109 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED