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Moving For The Sake Of Motion · Underoath

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGTAAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moving For The Sake Of Motion on drums

148 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-65, hi-hat through bars 66-67 and snare through bars 68-73, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Moving For The Sake Of Motion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, AA -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-69 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-116 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Moving For The Sake Of Motion?

190 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 Moving For The Sake Of Motion hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 Moving For The Sake Of Motion?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED