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Masochist (7 strings) · Polaris

EXERCISE 5 OF 53
2-bar fill at bar 63 and 1 more
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBSS1RJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Masochist (7 strings) on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 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
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-38, toms through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-81, hi-hat through bars 82-85 and snare through bars 86-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Masochist (7 strings) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 36, 37, 38 and 31 more.

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 -- B, S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-55 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-86 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Masochist (7 strings)?

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 Masochist (7 strings) hard to play on drums?

44 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Masochist (7 strings)?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 20, 24, 36, 37, 38 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED