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Landmines · Sum-41

EXERCISE 21 OF 45
Fill at bar 41, 83 and 123 (a small one)
98 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJBNTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Landmines on drums

125 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-44, hi-hat through bars 45-59 and toms through bars 60-61, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 62-67, and 3 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Landmines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-39 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-65 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Landmines?

172 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 Landmines hard to play on drums?

64 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Landmines?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED