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Extras · Arc Systems Works

Extras · Arc Systems Works
EXERCISE 7 OF 72
Groove L -- Part L
43 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART V
PART AD
PART L
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesELADAV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Extras on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
88/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-61, hi-hat through bars 62-94 and ride through bars 95-104, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-34 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-25 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Extras?

124 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 Extras hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Extras?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED