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MAJOR-MINOR · NOISEMAKER

MAJOR-MINOR · NOISEMAKER
EXERCISE 13 OF 63
Groove K -- Part K
93 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MAJOR-MINOR on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, snare through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-70 and snare through bars 71-86, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|
MAJOR-MINOR -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-99 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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