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EXERCISE 5 OF 65
Groove P
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PART D
PART S4
PART N
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AA
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AJ
OUTRO
12 groovesQAANDAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines (Live In Denver) on drums

154 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-22, silence through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-35, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 42, and 20 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines (Live In Denver) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- Q, AA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-85 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-72 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines (Live In Denver)?

170 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 London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines (Live In Denver) hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines (Live In Denver)?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED