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Masochist · Elysia

EXERCISE 3 OF 90
Groove J -- Part J
33 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART A
PART F
PART J
PART R
CHORUS
PART AY
PART BD
OUTRO
13 groovesSAAYBIF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Masochist on drums

185 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Masochist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 40, 52, 55, 56, 60, 63 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-52 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Masochist?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Masochist hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Masochist?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 40, 52, 55, 56, 60, 63 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED