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Machina · Erra

EXERCISE 5 OF 83
3-bar fill at bar 54
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0 / 83 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AI
PART S2
PART R
PART AI
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART CH
12 groovesAOS2RCHAZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machina on drums

166 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 77 and 81, and 9 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Machina -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 106 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AO, AI -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-48 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AI and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AZ -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machina?

175 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 Machina hard to play on drums?

62 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?

166 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Machina?

26 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 106 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED