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Myopic · Hemlok

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART E
CHORUS 2
8 groovesIELCN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Myopic on drums

122 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, snare through bars 29-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 39 and 41, and 14 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Myopic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 85 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 11-29 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-120 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Myopic?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Myopic hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Myopic?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 85 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED