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EXERCISE 11 OF 61
Groove B
38 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCFADAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Movies on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-54, ride through bars 55-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----gg|
BD |x-----x-------x---x-x-----x-----|
Movies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 23, 25, 26, 30 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-16 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Movies?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Movies hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 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 Movies?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 23, 25, 26, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED