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Gurzle · Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

EXERCISE 27 OF 39
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 107-109)
105 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
PART J
PART O
PART S7
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAOCJAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gurzle on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-55, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 6 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x--------------x--|
Gurzle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 38, 59, 60, 61 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-68 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-108 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-118 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gurzle?

128 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 Gurzle hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gurzle?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 38, 59, 60, 61 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED