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Great Big White World · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove D
73 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBCS1S3S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Great Big White World on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-76, silence through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 21-28 and 43-54, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x----x--x--x--|
Great Big White World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 42, 62, 71, 72, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 39-76 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Great Big White World?

83 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 Great Big White World hard to play on drums?

60 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Great Big White World?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 42, 62, 71, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED