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Machine · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGLIBV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machine on drums

170 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-127, silence through bars 128-134 and snare through bars 135-170.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 12 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19                                               20
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------|------x--x--------------------------x--x--x--x--|
Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 34 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-79 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-138 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machine?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Machine?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 26, 34 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED