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It · Genesis

EXERCISE 13 OF 79
Groove I
74 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART T
PART AA
PART AC
PART AJ
PART AC
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDACFTAJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, ride through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-72, snare through bars 73-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-84, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 16, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x--x--x-x--xx-x|
BD |x-xx----x-xx--x-|
It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 27, 28, 36 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-13 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It?

150 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 It hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 It?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 19, 20, 27, 28, 36 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED