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( I Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 10 OF 105
Groove I -- Part I
89 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART M
PART R
PART I
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
19 groovesAXABRMI+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ( I Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version on drums

236 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-48, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 169-170, 173-179 and 181-187, and 8 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    173
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx---xxxxx---|
( I Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- AX, AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ( I Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version?

190 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 ( I Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Used To Make Out With ) Medusa - Full Version?

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED