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Euphoria · Pump Action

Euphoria · Pump Action
EXERCISE 12 OF 60
Groove O
50 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART R
CHORUS
PART K
PART I
PART G
PART R
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGAPKI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Euphoria on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91, ride through bars 92-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 26-28 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x--x--------------------------|
Euphoria -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 39, 48, 49, 51, 56, 57 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-101 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Euphoria?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Euphoria hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Euphoria?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 39, 48, 49, 51, 56, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED