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Green Machine · Kyuss

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Green Machine on drums

149 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 45-51 and 53-59, and 4 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 43, 52, 76, 83 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-125 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Green Machine?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Green Machine hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Green Machine?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 43, 52, 76, 83 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED