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Generator · Turnstile

EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Groove L
76 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKVFQB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Generator on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-67 and ride through bars 68-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30-37 and 40, and 12 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Generator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 24, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- K, V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-86 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Generator?

143 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 Generator hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Generator?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 24, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED