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EXERCISE 7 OF 45
Groove E -- Part E
35 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART S1
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART AA
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNADHS1Z+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midnight Queen on drums

97 bars, 6:47, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-86 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x---------------|
Midnight Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- AD, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 2 and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Midnight Queen?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Midnight Queen hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Midnight Queen?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED