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I Never Met Another Gemini · The Bled

EXERCISE 18 OF 51
Groove K
61 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART O
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFADYWR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Never Met Another Gemini on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-94 -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--xx------xx----|
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |x---------------|
I Never Met Another Gemini -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Y, W -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Never Met Another Gemini?

113 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 I Never Met Another Gemini hard to play on drums?

46 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Never Met Another Gemini?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED