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Myspys · Lifelover

EXERCISE 19 OF 52
Groove I -- Part I
78 / 122 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART S12
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEKS12S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Myspys on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-73, silence through bars 74-84, hi-hat through bars 85-118 and snare through bars 119-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---xx--|
Myspys -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 29-41 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Myspys?

120 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 Myspys hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Myspys?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED