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M1a1 · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Part C
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play M1a1 on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 26-32 and 34-40 -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
M1a1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 33, 41, 42 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-44 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is M1a1?

130 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 M1a1 hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 M1a1?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 33, 41, 42 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED