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Every Planet We Reach Is Dead · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 7 OF 11
Join Part D to Break 2 (bars 65-67)
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CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADS5S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Planet We Reach Is Dead on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-58 and ride through bars 59-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 23-32 and 41-57 -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Every Planet We Reach Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Every Planet We Reach Is Dead?

88 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 Every Planet We Reach Is Dead hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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