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Meaningless Images · Ale & Gabbo

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLTBIE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meaningless Images on drums

78 bars, 4:27, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-27 and snare through bars 28-29, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 36-39 and 48-49, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |------------------------x-----------------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------x-----------------------x-------x---------------|
HF |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
Meaningless Images -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 40 and 47.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-60 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Meaningless Images?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Meaningless Images hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Meaningless Images?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 35, 40 and 47.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED