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[F] · Maximum The Hormone

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove W -- Part W
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0 / 70 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART W
PART AB
PART K
PART N
PART W
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFWADKN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play [F] on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, snare through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-60 and toms through bars 61-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-54 and 93-95, and 3 more places -- 10.3% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
[F] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is [F]?

152 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 [F] hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 [F]?

16 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED