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Joy.Discovery.Invention · Biffy Clyro

EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Join Part I to Part E (bars 39-41)
55 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCNS1AAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Joy.Discovery.Invention on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-25, snare through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 21-23 and 47-50, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Joy.Discovery.Invention -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 76, 84, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C, N, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-45 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-58 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-97 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-85 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Joy.Discovery.Invention?

125 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 Joy.Discovery.Invention hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Joy.Discovery.Invention?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 76, 84, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED