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Maybe · Asylum
EXERCISE 39 OF 54
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 95-97)
133 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART T
PART T
OUTRO
14 groovesIDLTS20+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maybe on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 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
192
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Maybe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 40, 48 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-92 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-132 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maybe?

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 Maybe hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Maybe?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 40, 48 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED