MAJOR-MINOR · NOISEMAKER

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 37-43, and 7 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MAJOR-MINOR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 38 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 44 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAKABNP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is MAJOR-MINOR?

165 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 MAJOR-MINOR hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 MAJOR-MINOR?

13 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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