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Middle of System · Ausborn 66

EXERCISE 9 OF 12
Join Chorus 2 to Break 3 (bars 77-79)
60 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 3
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
7 groovesCDS5S7S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Middle of System on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
25/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, silence through bars 43-53 and snare through bars 54-78, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21 and 55-78 -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Middle of System -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Bars 27-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Middle of System?

120 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 Middle of System hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Middle of System?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED