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Extras · Elphelt

Extras · Elphelt
EXERCISE 13 OF 62
Groove L -- Part L
83 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
8 groovesEKAS12S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Extras on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 17-19, and 20 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 2-27 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-45 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Extras?

124 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 Extras hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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?

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED