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Midwest Indigo · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 26 OF 42
2-bar fill at bar 63
67 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1PEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midwest Indigo on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, toms through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 60, 63, 64 and 6 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-77 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-79 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Midwest Indigo?

115 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 Midwest Indigo hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Midwest Indigo?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 60, 63, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED