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Motorbolt · Sun Guts

EXERCISE 6 OF 81
Groove E -- Part E
52 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART J
PART AX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAXJIW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Motorbolt on drums

191 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 2:28 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-19, hi-hat through bars 20-48, snare through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-58, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 14, and 12 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2        3
    1e+a2e+a 1e+a2e+a3e
HH |o-------|o-----o---|
SD |x-------|--------x-|
BD |xxxxx-x-|xxxxxxx---|
Motorbolt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 77 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-67 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-78 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-96 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Motorbolt?

192 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Motorbolt hard to play on drums?

64 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Motorbolt?

24 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED