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Midas · Wunderhorse

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midas on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-41, ride through bars 42-50, silence through bars 51-53, hi-hat through bars 54-57 and ride through bars 58-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17, 19-33 and 35-37, and 2 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-50 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Midas?

137 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 Midas hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Midas?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED