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maybe (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) · Machine Gun Kelly

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
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PART C
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
10 groovesHCQJA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play maybe (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-41, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 42-43 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 22.3% 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
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
maybe (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 49, 80, 85, 89, 93 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-22 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-50 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-85 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is maybe (feat. Bring Me The Horizon)?

118 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 (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 maybe (feat. Bring Me The Horizon)?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 49, 80, 85, 89, 93 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED