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Motorbike · Geordie Greep

Motorbike · Geordie Greep
EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Groove Q -- Chorus
67 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART K
PART M
BREAK
PART S8
CHORUS
PART A
PART AG
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesQBKCA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Motorbike on drums

234 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 11:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-38, ride through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-54, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 84-86 and 92, and 6 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Motorbike -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 78 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-46 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-95 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Motorbike?

80 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 Motorbike hard to play on drums?

45 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 11:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Motorbike?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 78 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED