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Kinetic · Arcturus

EXERCISE 8 OF 55
Groove E
50 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AB
BREAK
PART AI
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWABGS9M+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kinetic on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
94/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-50, 52 and 55, and 5 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Kinetic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 35, 36, 45 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kinetic?

111 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kinetic hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 22 sittings, about 23 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 Kinetic?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 35, 36, 45 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED