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Gears · Dave Badiuk

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
PART S10
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFDKIS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gears on drums

257 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 9:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
9:06
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-123, snare through bars 124-127, hi-hat through bars 128-131, toms through bars 132-160 and silence through bars 161-173, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-53, 72-103 and 190-225 -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-----x-o---x---x---x-x-o---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---x---xxx-----x---|
Gears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 123, 131 and 226.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-124 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-73 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-128 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 124-132 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 128-188 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gears?

113 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 Gears hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 9:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Gears?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 123, 131 and 226.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED