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Meddler · Abr

EXERCISE 27 OF 100
Fill at bar 24 and 133
65 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART I
PART P
PART V
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AT
PART AV
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesADIAKVAT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meddler on drums

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and snare through bars 21-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 33-39 and 134-135, and 1 more place -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Meddler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 65 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- I, AD -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-20 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Meddler?

180 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 Meddler hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Meddler?

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED