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Maybe The Earth Is Flat · On Broken Wings

EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Groove F -- Part F
21 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
PART F
PART L
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLEBS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maybe The Earth Is Flat on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-16 and 68-70, and 2 more places -- 20.7% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Maybe The Earth Is Flat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 33 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-35 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-85 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maybe The Earth Is Flat?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Earth Is Flat hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Maybe The Earth Is Flat?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 33 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED