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Majak · ambroz

Majak · ambroz
EXERCISE 16 OF 43
Run E1 · Part E (bars 17-20)
71 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
PART B
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART M
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
12 groovesPSHLM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Majak on drums

110 bars, 6:04, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-41, ride through bars 42-74, hi-hat through bars 75-84 and ride through bars 85-103, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 75-83 and 104-112 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75               76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
HH |o-o---o-o-o---o-|o-o---o-o-o---o-|
SD |x---x---x---xx--|----x---x-x-x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
FT |------------xx--|xxxx------------|
BD |-xxx-----xxx----|xxxx-----x-x----|
Majak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, L -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-17 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-61 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Majak?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Majak hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Majak?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 12 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED