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Motivation · Sum 41

EXERCISE 18 OF 47
Groove K
71 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Y
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCILYA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Motivation on drums

119 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-49 and snare through bars 50-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 15 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
Motivation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-59 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 18-38 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Motivation?

168 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 Motivation hard to play on drums?

54 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Motivation?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED