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Emo · BxH

Emo · BxH
EXERCISE 11 OF 100
5-bar fill at bar 33
38 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
14 groovesKAUAPZQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Emo on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-66 and snare through bars 67-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 12.1% 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-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|
Emo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 34 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP, Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-41 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Emo?

90 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 Emo hard to play on drums?

42 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Emo?

27 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED