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Machine · Avenue
EXERCISE 4 OF 65
Groove N
17 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO
14 groovesACKAARAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machine on drums

178 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10 and ride through bars 11-12, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-106, 109-110 and 113-114, and 9 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x---g-|
BD |x-x---x---------|
Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machine?

187 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 Machine hard to play on drums?

63 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?

178 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Machine?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED