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Maps · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove G -- Part G
41 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDJLBR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maps on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-46, toms through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 37-46, and 1 more place -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Maps -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 50, 58, 73, 74, 75 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-65 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maps?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Maps hard to play on drums?

56 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Maps?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 50, 58, 73, 74, 75 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED