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EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBOQL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maladaptive Dreaming on drums

87 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 2:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
93/100

ride through bar 1, toms through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-35, silence through bars 36-37 and ride through bars 38-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------X-------X-------X-------|X-------X-----X-X-------X-------|
SD |--X-----X-----X-----X---X---X---|--X-----X-----X-----X---X-----X-|
T2 |------X-----X-----------------X-|------X-----X---------------X---|
FT |----X-----X-------X---X---X-----|----X-----X-------X---X---X-----|
BD |X-------X-----X-X-------X---x---|X-------X-----X-X-------X---x---|
Maladaptive Dreaming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 29, 32 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maladaptive Dreaming?

115 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Maladaptive Dreaming hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Maladaptive Dreaming?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 17, 20, 21, 29, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED