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MIK · Sktr

MIK · Sktr
EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Fill at bar 39, 47, 63 and 2 more (a small one)
131 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMEBOS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MIK on drums

153 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
90/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-21 and snare through bars 22-23, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-46 and 48-62, and 8 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx--xx--|
MIK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 26, 27 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-120 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 119-136 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is MIK?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is MIK hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 MIK?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 26, 27 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED