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I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥) · Psychonaut 4

EXERCISE 16 OF 56
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 42-60)
132 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFBCPW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥) on drums

193 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45, snare through bars 46-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-93, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-35 and 126-140 -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 45, 53, 93, 97, 105 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥)?

125 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 I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Measure Time in Milliliters (tabs by kaštus ♥)?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 45, 53, 93, 97, 105 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED