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Majesty · Ghost

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove N
44 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLHUDAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Majesty on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-41, ride through bars 42-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-46, ride through bars 47-51 and snare through bars 52-53, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-26, 29-38 and 60-67, and 1 more place -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o-o-----o-o-o---o-o---------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
FT |------------------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-------x-------|
Majesty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 43, 46, 48 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Majesty?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Majesty hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Majesty?

13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 43, 46, 48 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED