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Me 262 · Blue Öyster Cult

EXERCISE 10 OF 35
Fill at bar 51, 515 and 517 (a small one)
138 / 579 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART S9
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
PART S9
8 groovesS8CDIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me 262 on drums

579 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 13:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
579
LENGTH
13:49
DIFFICULTY
30/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-60, snare through bars 61-66, hi-hat through bars 67-108, silence through bars 109-518 and snare through bars 519-539, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-41, 54 and 67-72, and 4 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Me 262 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 51, 53, 85, 87, 515 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-50 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-72 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 69-91 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 104-539 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 538-579 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Me 262?

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

Is Me 262 hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

579 bars, about 13:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Me 262?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 51, 53, 85, 87, 515 and 1 more.

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