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Half Mast · Empire Of The Sun

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Half Mast on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 8 more places -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 91 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Half Mast?

128 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 Half Mast hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Half Mast?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED