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Journey Blind · Magic Circle

Journey Blind · Magic Circle
EXERCISE 5 OF 121
Groove C -- Part C
132 / 329 BARS COVERED
0 / 121 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D, PART G
PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AJ
PART I
PART AS
OUTRO
18 groovesLIAJAIAS+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 13
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Journey Blind on drums

329 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
10:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-76, snare through bars 77-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-125, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 44, and 27 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Journey Blind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 20, 21 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 97 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 -- L, AH -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-30 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-258 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Journey Blind?

120 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 Journey Blind hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

329 bars, about 10:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Journey Blind?

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 20, 21 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 329 BARS ANALYSED