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Marillion - Drum play along. · Lavender

EXERCISE 27 OF 40
Groove K -- Part K
73 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDCGHK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Marillion - Drum play along. on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Marillion - Drum play along. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 14.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-31 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-78 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-65 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 64-83 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Marillion - Drum play along.?

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 Marillion - Drum play along. hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Marillion - Drum play along.?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 14.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED