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Michael · Franz Ferdinand

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFJOBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Michael on drums

128 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, ride through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-82, ride through bars 83-98, hi-hat through bars 99-110 and ride through bars 111-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Michael -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 37, 52, 53, 82, 110 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-38 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-103 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Michael?

162 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 Michael hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Michael?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 37, 52, 53, 82, 110 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED