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Meteor · Architects

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Groove Q
51 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART G
PART S2
PART G
PART K
PART P
PART S6
PART S
PART K
PART P
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVGKPE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meteor on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-39, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 67-69, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x---------x-|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|--x-----x-x---x-|
Meteor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 31, 32, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-107 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Meteor?

136 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 Meteor hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Meteor?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 31, 32, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED