ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gemini on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 152
LENGTH: 5:29
DIFFICULTY: 64/100

ride through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, ride through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-51, ride through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 116-119, 121-122 and 125-139 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    121                              122
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|--------x-----------------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Gemini -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Gemini?

110 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 Gemini hard to play on drums?

64 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Gemini?

23 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 36 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED