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Master Builder (AI tab) · Gong

EXERCISE 15 OF 89
Groove K -- Part K
116 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AU
PART AV
OUTRO 2
25 groovesLMAVAUBJ+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 25
LINK · 6
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master Builder (AI tab) on drums

256 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-24, toms through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-43, toms through bars 44-50 and ride through bars 51-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-62, 69 and 73, and 8 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Master Builder (AI tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 50, 117, 118, 119, 171, 172 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 49-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Master Builder (AI tab)?

144 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 Master Builder (AI tab) hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 6:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Master Builder (AI tab)?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 50, 117, 118, 119, 171, 172 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED