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Locust · Machine Head

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove U -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AJ
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesUIAJADC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Locust on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 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
221
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, snare through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-57 and toms through bars 58-66, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-64, 89-95 and 185-191, and 1 more place -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58               59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
T2 |--------x-------|x-------x-------|
FT |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Locust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Locust?

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 Locust hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Locust?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED