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Machinehead · Bush

EXERCISE 27 OF 38
Fill at bar 78
96 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJMS2G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machinehead on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, ride through bars 39-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 19 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Machinehead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-41 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machinehead?

115 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 Machinehead hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 Machinehead?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED