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EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove X -- Chorus
0 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART F
PART P
PART V
PART F
PART P
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXFPVS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midnight Mover on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-39, ride through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-67 and ride through bars 68-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-41, 43-44 and 68-69, and 8 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|
Midnight Mover -- 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 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- X, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Midnight Mover?

148 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 Midnight Mover hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Midnight Mover?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED